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Two different types of tissue: the xylem carries water and the phloem carries nutrients.

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Q: What carries water to the roots and food back to the roots?
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What vascular tissue carries food from the leaves to the roots?

The phloem carries the food down from the leaves. Not to be confused with xylem, which carries water up to the leaves.


What part of plant carries food water and nutrients to and from the roots?

Stem


What carries water and dissolved nutrients from the roots to the leaves?

Xylem carries water and mineral nutrient ions from the roots up into the tree. Phloem carries sucrose, the "food" made as a result of photosynthesis, throughout the plant.


How does phloem and xylem work in flowers?

Xylem carries water up from the roots to the leaves for the process of photosynthesis. Phloem carries the food/nutrients down to the roots.


What are the tubes called that carry water to the leaf in a plant?

The Phloem tissue carries the products of photosynthesis from the leaves to the rest of the plant


Do stems store store food and water?

if your talking about the flower no, flowers store water in the leaves and they dont really have food, they turn the water into food using their leaves.


What carrys water from the roots to the leaves?

What carries the water and minerals from root to the leaf are known as something called vascular bundles. These consist of 2 which are the xylem and the phloem. Both of these transport either food up then leaf (phloem) and the xylem carries the water up the stem. Cheers


What carry water from the roots to the leaves?

What carries the water and minerals from root to the leaf are known as something called vascular bundles. These consist of 2 which are the xylem and the phloem. Both of these transport either food up then leaf (phloem) and the xylem carries the water up the stem. Cheers


Why do plants die after their roots are cut?

The plant gets its water and nutrients by the roots. No roots = no water, no "food" = Death.


What carry's food and water to the cells?

Cytoplasm carries food and water to the cells.


What carries food from roots to all plant parts?

there are cells in the phloem that pulls the food upwards


Are the water absorbing roots different from food absorbing roots?

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