HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Leaves. Leaves are the most important part of a plant. They contain chlorophyll that helps the plants to prepare their food using sunlight, carbon dioxide and water.

Detailed explanation-2: -The leaves prepare food for the plants, using water and carbon dioxide in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll. This process is called photosynthesis. The prepared food is in the form of glucose.

Detailed explanation-3: -The blade of a compound leaf is divided into several leaflets. The examples of simple leaf include banana and maple leaf. The examples of compound leaves are neem and peepal leaf.

Detailed explanation-4: -Compound: The leaf is separated into distinct leaflets, each with its own small petiole (but without an axillary bud). Simple: The leaf may be lobed or divided, but does not form distinct leaflets.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chlorophyll absorbs energy from sunlight which a plant uses to make food. chloroplast: a plastid that contains chlorophyll and is the site where photosynthesis and starch formation occur. photosynthesis: the formation of carbohydrates in the chlorophyll containing tissues of plants exposed to light.