Air pollution has become an extremely serious problem. Air pollutants affect both plants and animals. Under polluted conditions, plants develop different physiological, morphological and anatomical changes. Pollutants cause damage to cuticular waxes by which then they enter the leaves through stomata. This further leads to injury to plants which can be either acute or chronic. Changes in stomata due to air pollutants which seem to be small can be of great consequence with respect to survival of the plant during stress. These effects can further lead to disturbing the water balance of leaf or whole plant. Respiration also gets affected because of the exposure of plants to air pollutants. The present paper deals with the effect of air pollutants on stomata as well as on respiration leading to affect gaseous exchange.
Answer:
Introns
Explanation:
The coding region of the gene is the part of the gene that is transcribed. However, not all of the gene makes the final mRNA. There are sequences called exons and introns in the coding region of the gene.
The pre-mRNA contains transcribed sequences of both the introns and exons. However, the introns are removed from the final mRNA by splicing. The final mRNA that is translated to the protein only contains exons. An illustration is attached to illustrate this.
