Question

A goat eat away all all the leaves of a small plant balsam however in a few days new leaves could be seen sprouting in the plant again how did the plant survive without the leaves​

Answer 1

Answer:

The plant used the stored food to grow.

Explanation:

The plants usually produce food more than required and store them in the form of starch. When the leaves are eaten away by an animal, this stored starch is converted to glucose for the nutrition of plants. The plant respires by using the pores on stems called lentils.

Answer 2

Answer:

Plants can easily survive if there are no leaves for a few days.

The food stored in the stems and roots acts as a supplement and help them to fulfill the food requirement when the leaves are absent.

For the gaseous exchange it makes use of lenticels of stem.

Explanation: