Biology A-Level
Hydrophyte
What Hydrophyte means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Hydrophyte
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Reference: OCR
A plant living in or on water, gaining buoyancy and rapid gas exchange through air spaces in stems and leaves, stomata on upper leaf surfaces and poor root development.
Topics that use Hydrophyte
- Transport in plants (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Cohesion and adhesion
- Control of environmental variables
- Osmosis
- Potometer
- Rate calculation
- Source-to-sink transport of assimilates
- Surface area to volume ratio in plants
- Thin sections
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