What does phloem mean?

Answer 1

Phloem is a conductive (or vascular) tissue found in plants.

Phloem carries the products of photosynthesis (sucrose and glucose) from the leaves to other parts of the plant. The corresponding system that circulates water and minerals from the roots is called the xylem. But unlike its xylem counterpart, phloem tissue is alive, and is a complex tissue composed mostly of two types of cells:

Sieve tubes - these are cells which have no nucleus, elongated and joined end on end to form long straw-like tubes. These cells are joined to each other by perforated connectors called sieve plates.

Companion cells - are fully functioning cells that assist the sieve tubes by performing cellular functions that the sieve tubes (lacking nuclei, ribosomes, and vacuoles) cannot.

Maple syrup comes from the phloem (sap) of a maple tree.

Answer 2

Phloem is a type of plant tissue responsible for transporting nutrients, such as sugars and organic compounds, throughout the plant. It is composed of specialized cells called sieve tubes and companion cells.

Answer 3

(Alive at maturity and are used to transfers sugar) A phloem is part of a plant that Carries food down the stem,carries sugar, and protein to all parts of the plant that need them.

Answer 4

Leaves have vessels, not entirely unlike our blood vessels, that carry water up from the roots and food down from the leaves. Water is transported is a vessel called xylem and food is transported in a vessel called phloem. If it helps you to remember, think phloem = phood (food). See?

Answer 5

The food conducting tissue in the plant, called phloem tissues, forms the phloem vessels. The tubes are made of living cells which transport the food, made in the leaf through photosynthesis, to the other parts of the plant.

Answer 6

Phloem refers to a system that transfers sugary substances throughout a plant (those sugars are like the plant's food). There's also something called xylem which is a system that transfers water through the plant.

Answer 7

Phloem is a vascular tissue of plant which transports the synthesised food to all parts of a plant.

Answer 8

It is cell tissue that tranport manufactured food from the leaves of plant to all parts of the plant and storage organs

Answer 9

To transport food to other parts of the plant.

Answer 10

phloem transports food