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What mainly provides support to the young herbaceous parts of a plant?

Correct answer D. All of these

Explanation

Young stems lack wood, so support comes from turgid living cells of the epidermis, cortex and pith pressing outward, helped by collenchyma with its unevenly thickened walls.

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