Transpiration helps cool a leaf's surface mainly through which mechanism?
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Correct answer: Evaporative cooling by latent heat loss
As water evaporates from leaf surfaces during transpiration, it absorbs latent heat of vaporisation, thereby cooling the leaf -- a process called evaporative cooling.
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