What do cuticles do for land plants that were not necessary for ancestors that lived in the water?
Cuticles allow them to grow bigger and taller.
Cuticles help them transport water.
Cuticles help prevent water loss.
Cuticles allow the performance of photosynthesis.
HELP PLS AND THX
Answer:prevention of water loss would be unnecessary
Explanation:
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Cuticles are protective lining in the epidermal layer of plants. Cuticles helps to reduce water loss and protect the plants from environmental stresses.
What is cuticles?Cuticle is an organism's external layer or area that makes touch with the environment. The epidermis secretes the dead, noncellular cuticle in many invertebrate species. In humans, the cuticle is the epidermis, and this layer may include colours and chitin, similar to arthropods.
The cuticle is a protective coating that protects the epidermal cells of leaves and other organs while preventing water loss in some higher plants.
It is made up of cutin, a waxy, water-repellent compound related to suberin that is present in the corky tissue's cell walls. Hence, option c is correct.
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