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 Weightage in NEET

Unit and Topic Number of Total Weightage Percentage

Questions Marks

Structural 10 40 16.00%
Organisation
in Plants &
Animals
Plant Tissues → Tissues are made up of a group of similar
Plant Tissues cells that are adapted for a particular function.

→ Regions of
continuous cell
division and Meristematic Permanent
growth
→ Group of living or dead cells formed by meristematic
tissue and have lost their ability to divide and have
Apical Intercalary Lateral permanently placed at fixed position in plant body.

Position: At the base of the Position: On the

Position: At the root tip
leaf/internodes/ leaf. lateral side of stem
and shoot tip.
Function: To increase the and root.
Function: To increase in
length of the plant or its Function: To increase
length of the axis.
organs. in diameter of plant.
Meristematic Tissue
Structural Function
Cells are small, spherical or polygonal in shape. This allows for close packing of a large number of cells.

Vacuoles are very small or completely absent. Vacuoles provide rigidity to cells thus preventing rapid division.
The lack of organelles is a feature of an undifferentiated cell.

Large amount of cytoplasm and a large nucleus. Large amount of nuclear material contains the DNA necessary
for division and differentiation.
Meristematic Tissue
Meristematic Tissue
PERMANENT TISSUE
Parenchyma
→ Structure: Thin-walled cells.
→ Intercellular spaces between
cells, have large central vacuoles.
→ Common type of ground tissue.
→ Function: Responsible for the
storage of nutrients.
Permanent Tissues
Simple Complex
→ Collection of different types of cells that help
in the performance of a common function.
Collenchyma Sclerenchyma
→ Cells are spherical, oval or polygonal in
shape with no intercellular spaces.
→ Corners of cell wall are thickened, with Fibres Sclereids
cellulose and pectin deposits, Cells are
thin-walled on most sides. → Fibres are long, → Cells are short,
→ Provides structural support, mechanical narrow, thick and lignified isodiametric, spherical,
strength, flexibility. cells usually with pointed oval, or cylindrical in shape.
or blunt ends.
PARENCHYMA TISSUE

Buoyancy

Chlorenchyma
COLLENCHYMA TISSUE

Collenchyma in Herbaceous
dicot stem. Collenchyma in thin Collenchyma in the strings of
celery stalks
margin of leaves.
SCLERENCHYMA TISSUE

Sclereid
cells in pear

Cell wall

Fiber cells (cross

section from ash
tree)
Types of Sclereids based on shape

Brachysclereids- more or Osteosclereids-Bone-shaped

less isodiametric Macrosclereids- Rod or
Column Shaped

Trichosclereids- Long
elongated shape Astrosclereids-irregular
(often star - shaped)
 Complex permanent tissues

Xylem Phloem
● Conducts water and minerals from the
● Transports food from the leaves to the
root to the stern and leaves
other parts
● Provides mechanical support

Consists of Consists of

Xylem Sieve tube Companion Phloem

Tracheids Vessels Fibres Phloem fibre
parenchyma elements cells parenchyma
● Elongated ● Long. ● Highly ● Living cells ● Long, ● Specialised ● Long, ● Made of
and cylindrical thickened ● Thin-walled tube- like parenchyma cylindrical sclerenchym
tube-like ● Walls walls ● Cell wall ● Arranged ● Associated ● Stores food a
● Thick lignified ● May or may made of longitudinall with sieve ● Thick cell
lignified not be cellulose y tubes wall
walls septate ● Radial ● End walls ● Jute, flax
conduction perforated and hemp
by ray commercial
parenchyma fibres

Primary xylem is of two types:

First-formed phloem is protophloem
● Protoxylem - towards centre is endarch
later-formed phloem is metaphloem
● Metaxylem - towards centre is exarch
VASCULAR TISSUES
VASCULAR TISSUES