AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -the correct option is ‘Absence of reserve food’.

Detailed explanation-2: -A plant has four kinds of meristems: the apical meristem and three kinds of lateral-vascular cambium, cork cambium, and intercalary meristem.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are three primary meristems: the protoderm, which will become the epidermis; the ground meristem, which will form the ground tissues comprising parenchyma, collenchyma, and sclerenchyma cells; and the procambium, which will become the vascular tissues (xylem and phloem).

Detailed explanation-4: -As growth proceeds, the cork cambium forms in living cells of the epidermis, cortex, or, in some plants, phloem and produces a secondary protective tissue, the periderm.