NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -When the plant is injured, cut, or stressed, cells break down and a sticky substance (gum) exudes out, absorbs water, and swells to seal off the injury and help heal the damage. This process is called gummosis.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this exercise, gum arabic from the Acacia plant was used to make an edible glue.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many gums occur as seed coatings for plant species; the adaptive purpose of some of these gummy coatings is to delay germination of certain flora seeds. An example of such a gummy coating occurs in the case of Western poison oak, a widespread shrub in western North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -They are also used in cosmetics, paints, textiles, and paper making [2]. These natural gums and mucilages are preferred over the synthetic ones because they are biocompatible, cheap, and easily available than the synthetic ones.

Detailed explanation-5: -Examples of gum resins are Myrrh and Gamboge.