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Transport In Plants

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Who said that 'transpiration is a necessary evil'

  • Curtis

  • Andersen

  • Steward

  • J.C. Bose

Solution

A.

Curtis

Curtis (1926) called transpiration as necessary evil because it provides some beneficial aspects but on the other hand, many functioning and energy gets wasted from absorption of water upto the stage of transpiration.

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