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What are pores surrounded by guard cells in the epidermis of a leaf?

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Answer:

stomata

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Role of guard cells in a leaf?
They control the opening and closing of the stomates in a leaf.
What is the role of guard cells do in a leaf?
Guard cells change shape to open and close stomata. When they are flaccid, the stoma is closed. When they are full of water and firm, the stoma is open. There are 2 guard cells controlling a stoma....
What does a guard cell do in a leaf?
Guard cells control the opening and closing of stomates in the leaf epidermis. By inflating and deflating, these cell open the stomate to facilitate gas exchange by the leaf.
Job of epidermis in a leaf cell?
to protect the inner layers of the leaf
Why are the guard cells in the lower epidermis the only cells with chloroplasts in a leaf?
They aren't, the palacaid layer, the spongy layer and guard cells all contain chloroplasts.