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How do vascular plants' xylem and phloem compare to an animals' arteries and veins?
Xylem, phloem, arteries and veins are all specialized transport systems that serve a unique but similar function in their respective organisms. Arteries and veins make up the circulatory system of many animals and are the primary mechanism for transporting nutrients and vital compounds throughout a living organism. The arteries are specialized in the transport of oxygenated blood away from the heart while veins return blood without their oxygen back to the heart to restore the cycle. Along the way, various compounds are dropped off and picked up at various cells.
While arteries and veins are an all encompassing system for transporting anything, xylem and phloem are even more specialized to only work in transporting certain materials. Phloem is specialized in the transport of nutrients, particularly sugar, throughout a vascular plant, while xylem is almost exclusively for water. Wheres arteries and veins require the pumping of a heart to flow, xylem and phloem depend on basic physical principles. Phloem utilizes the change in concentration between sources of nutrients and sites in need of nutrients to literally draw the nutrients where they are needed. Likewise, xylem depends on osmosis and a difference in pressure at the roots and the leaves to draw water up and through the plant.
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What carries sugar from leaves to rest of the plant?
The vascular tissue called the phloem.
How are ferns like nonvascular and vascular plants?
Ferns are vascular plants. Vascular plants are non-seeded plants meaning you do not have to plant a seed for them to grow. Ferns grow by air borne spores. Ferns also can be kept in a drier climate due to them being vascular. There aren't similarities between vasucular and non vascular plants.
Which components of a geranium plant have functions similar to those of the arteries and veins of humans?
a) xylem and phloem b) cambrium and epidermis c) chloroplasts and guard cells d) palisade and spongy layers ?
A layer of cells that makes xylem and phloem is called?
CAMBIUM
The driving force for the movement of materials in the phloem of plants is what?
a difference in osmotic water potential between the source and the sink
What part of a plant is similar to the arteries and veins?
The vascular system in plants, consisting of xylem and phloem, is similar to the arteries and veins in animals. Xylem transports water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant, similar to arteries carrying blood from the heart. Phloem transports sugars and other nutrients throughout the plant, similar to veins returning blood to the heart.
How is phloem similar to arteries?
Phloem and arteries are both specialized structures that transport fluids within a living organism. Phloem transports sugars and other organic compounds in plants, while arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart in animals. Additionally, both phloem and arteries have specific mechanisms for regulating the flow of substances they transport.
Is xylem and phloem an non - vascular plant?
No. Xylem and phloem are belonging to vascular plants only. Bryophytae are not vascular, and do not have these.
What plant have xylem and phloem tube?
Vascular plants. Xylem and Phloem are the vascular system of plants. If you compare it with humans, they're the blood vessels...sort of Xylem transports water, Phloem transports nutrients
Is phloem vascular or non vascular?
its vascular
What does vascular mean?
Vascular means pertaining to vessels which transport fluids (whether in plants or animals). In plants, phloem and xylem are vessels that carry water and food through the plant. In animals, arteries and veins carries blood
Which is vascular tissue in plants?
Phloem
Do Vascular plants have phloem?
Phloem as well as xylem
What is a sentence for phloem?
A plant's Vascular is made up of Phloem............
Are Gerber daisies vascular?
Daisies are vascular because of the xylem and phloem
Which part of the plant contains xylem and phloem?
Xylem and phloem are typically found in the vascular tissue of plants. In stems, xylem is located towards the center while phloem is closer to the outer edge. In roots, xylem is towards the center and phloem surrounds it.
Why bryophytes are non vascular?
Because they do not have the vascular tissues. Xylem and phloem.
