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Yes a leaf can not have a waxy surface if it is so adapted. The waxy surface is designed to keep water off, and inside of the leaf. Leaves in the rain forest often have a waxy surface to keep from being constantly saturated in water.
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How do shiny waxy leaf surface helps in food manufacture?
The shiny waxy leaf surface absorbs light and does not allow water to evaporate. Thus water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light manufacture food by photosynthesis in the chloroplasts.
How do plants stop the leaves from losing water?
By waxy deposition on the leaf surface and closing of stomata
What is the outer cell layer of the leaf. It is transparent so sunlight can pass through?
The outer surface of the leaf has a thin transparent waxy covering called the cuticle
What is the adaptation of a waxy leaf?
a cereal
What does the waxy cutical do inside a leaf?
The purpose of the waxy outer layer of a leaf, which is called a cuticle, is to keep the leaf from losing water inside the leaf. Plants that live in the water do not have this problem, so they have no cuticle.
What waxy substance cover the leaf surface?
the waxy material in the leaf is called "CUTIN"
What is the cuticle waxy layer on the outside surface of the leaf?
cutin and cutan
Which leaf is not likely to be eaten by deer because of its surface?
Waxy and prickly leaf is not likely to be eaten by deer
What is a waxy covering on the skin of a leaf?
cuticle it on the leaf for the bugs to eat to keep out posion
How do shiny waxy leaf surface helps in food manufacture?
The shiny waxy leaf surface absorbs light and does not allow water to evaporate. Thus water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light manufacture food by photosynthesis in the chloroplasts.
How shiny waxy leaf surface help in food manufacture?
The shiny waxy leaf surface absorbs light and does not allow water to evaporate. Thus water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light manufacture food by photosynthesis in the chloroplasts.
How do plants stop the leaves from losing water?
By waxy deposition on the leaf surface and closing of stomata
What is the outer cell layer of the leaf. It is transparent so sunlight can pass through?
The outer surface of the leaf has a thin transparent waxy covering called the cuticle
What plant has leaves with waxy surfaces to protect themselves from dehydration due to much sunlight?
Such plants tend to store water in swollen leaf cells, and are generally classed as succulents. The waxy leaf surface is to prevent too much evaporation of water due to the heat.
What is the waxy covering of a leaf?
cuticle
What is the adaptation of a waxy leaf?
a cereal
What is the skin on a leaf called?
The outer layer of a leaf's skin is called the waxy cuticle, or just cuticle. You could also include the next layer, the epidermis layer. Mostly, though, the leaf's skin is called the 'Leaf surface'.
