Q.Identify the following diagram (b), label it and prepare a chart of characteristics.

Simple permanent tissue is built from a single type of cell performing a single kind of function, and includes three named tissues that between them cover the full range from purely living-and-flexible to purely dead-and-rigid. Parenchyma is thin-walled, living, cellulosic, and only lightly specialised — its cells are isodiametric to elongated with a prominent nucleus and a large vacuole, and small intercellular spaces are typical; besides basic storage, parenchyma is the tissue most capable of dedifferentiating back into a meristem (for instance, into vascular or cork cambium during secondary growth). Collenchyma is also living, but its cellulose-and-pectin wall is thickened unevenly, concentrated at the corners where cells meet, and its cells are packed with no intercellular gaps; because this uneven thickening is flexible rather than rigid, collenchyma functions as a living mechanical tissue that lets young stems and petioles bend and stretch without tearing — it is notabl …