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How can water flow up the xylem tube while gravity is pulling it down?
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adhesion, the water molecules are attracted and therefore "climb" the xylem walls
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What transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to leaves?
The xylem carries the water and minerals up around to the leaves of plant from the roots and the phloem carries it to the rest of the plant
What direction does the xylem transport water?
The flow is from the roots to the plant so the flow goes up.
What is the purpose of the stem?
The purpose of the stem are: -for structure -to transport water and nutrients. The stem carries food and water through 2 tissues. (The xylem tissue and the Phloem tissue). The woody kind of stems have lots of xylem tissues, while non-woody stems have less xylem tissues.
What does a xylem cell do?
Xylem cells carry water and nutrients from the roots to other parts of a plant.
Long tubes that transport water from the roots to the leaves?
it's called "xylem" your welcome
How do water and nutrients move through vascular plants?
By xylem and phloem and by gravity it goes upward
What what the jods of the phloem and xylem?
The xylem and the phloem are known as the transportation system in vascular plants. The xylem transports water and nutrients while the phloem transports sugars.
How is the xylem different from phloem?
xylem transports water and minerals while phloem transports products of photosynthesis and other metabolic processes.
What transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to leaves?
The xylem carries the water and minerals up around to the leaves of plant from the roots and the phloem carries it to the rest of the plant
How does the structure of xylem and phloem vessels differs microscopically?
differ in such a way that xylem transport water while phloem transport food and nutrients
What two properties of water are critical in moving water through xylem?
The two critical properties of water in moving through xylem are cohesion and adhesion. Cohesion allows water molecules to stick together, forming a continuous column of water in the xylem. Adhesion allows water molecules to stick to the walls of the xylem cells, helping to counteract the pull of gravity and enabling water to be transported upward in plants.
Where does the xylem get water?
Xylem gets water from the roots of a plant
What is trasported by the xylem?
Water is transported by the xylem.
What direction does the xylem transport water?
The flow is from the roots to the plant so the flow goes up.
What is the vascular bundle of stems made up of?
They are made up of xylem and phloem. The xylem's primary function is to transport water, while the phloem transports nutrients.
What does high water tension result from?
There are two possible answers to this question. If you mean the tension in a column of water, for example in the xylem, it is caused by hydrogen bonding between water molecules which enables the water column to resist breaking under the pull of gravity in the stem. If you mean surface tension, this is also caused by hydrogen bonding between water molecules. At the surface of water there are many hydrogen bonds pulling molecules inwards but none pulling them outwards. So the water behaves as if it had a "skin". This also causes water to form spherical drops.
What are the fuctions of xylem and phloem?
Xylem transport water from roots to aerial parts of plant while phloem transport food from leaves to roots and in spring from roots to buds.
