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What adaptations help the aquatic plant to survive in water in simple points

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Answered by VaishnaviMohan
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Aquatic plants require special adaptations for living submerged in water, or at the water's surface. The most common adaptation is the presence of lightweight internal packing cells, aerenchyma, but floating leaves and finely dissected leaves are also common.

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Answered by skyfall63
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Aquatic plants have adaptations such as the presence of "aerenchyma",  as well as,finely dissected & floating leaves

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  • Aquatic plants adaptto living in "aquatic environments" like freshwater/saltwater. They are also known as macrophytes/hydrophytes to differentiate them from algae & other microphytes
  • Aquatic plants need "special adaptations" to survive in the water surface. The presence of "light-weight internal" packing cells called  aerenchyma, as well as floating & finely "dissected leaves" are some its adaptations
  • Aerenchyma is a "spongy tissue" which forms air channels/spaces in the leaves, roots, & stems of certain plants, that allows "exchange of gases" between the root & the shoot. The channels of "air-filled cavities" offer a "low-resistance" "internal pathway" for the "exchange of gases" such as ethylene & oxygen between the "plant above" the water & the "submerged tissues". Aerenchyma is also widespread in aquatic &  wetland plants that grow in hypoxic soil
  • In water or in the soil mostly saturated by water, aquatic plants can only grow. And, hence, they are an integral part of wetlands. One of the globes's biggest water plants is the Amazon's water Lily; the minute duckweed is one of the smallest.
  • Several small aquatic animals use plants like duckweed to safeguard from predators or for a home. Some other familiar examples of aquatic plants comprise water lily, floating heart, water hyacinth, & lotus.

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