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Xylem is used to transport water and nutrients from the roots up to the rest of the plant.

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What kind of plant uses xylem and phloem for their transportation system?

All plants use xylem and phloem vessels.


What plants have no xylem vessels?

Mosses


Do vascular plants have vessels?

vascular plants are plants that have vessels


How does xylem tracheids and vessels help the plants when they are placed end to end like tubes?

The xylem tracheids and vessels placed end to end like tubes in plants help in the conduction of water.


What is a xylem vessel for?

Xylem vessels are responsible for transporting water and minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant. They are part of the plants' vascular system, along with phloem, which transports sugars and other organic nutrients.


What are the vessels in plants that carry water and nutrients upward?

I think it's the Xylem. They absorb water from the roots, and run through the stem. Then, they carry the water in the vessels to the whole plants, and out through the plants through the leaves stomata.


Why is soil useful for living things?

It provides nutrients and minerals for plants, which is carried up from the root of the plant to it's leaves by the xylem vessels pronounced (Zy.lum) Xylem vessels are long tubes in the plants cells!


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


Do plants have anything in their veins?

water and sugars are transported in the xylem and phloem vessels of the plant


What are the similarities and difference between red blood cells and xylem vessels?

red blood cells carries oxygen, xylem vessels carries water. both help carry out the process of respiration.


Do vascular plants have xylem and phloem?

Yes, but some plants lack certain types of xylem and phloem cells such as vessel elements and tracheids. Tracheids have been lost in Wolffia, an aquatic plant, and vessels are not present in all conifers.


What property of water accounts for the fact that the molecules of water grab the walls of the thin xylem vessels?

Adhesion is the property of water that allows its molecules to stick to the surfaces of the thin xylem vessels in plants. This is important for water transport in plants as adhesion helps water to move up the xylem vessels against gravity.