Plant adaptations and plant hormones

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Hydrophytes are plants adapted to live in wet environments or floating on water.

Figure 1 shows a transverse section of a typical mesophyte leaf (adapted to average water conditions).

Figure 1: A transverse section of a typical mesophyic leaf showing a thin waxy cuticle on the upper epidermis, a closely packed layer of palisade mesophyll cells, a spongy mesophyll layer with moderate air spaces, and stomata located only on the lower epidermis.

State two structural differences between the leaf of a floating hydrophyte and the typical leaf shown in Figure 1.

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