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Xylem vessels have several adaption that make them better for transporting water rather than tracheids. The adaptions ensure that water meets less resistance in xylem vessels.
Adaptions:
1. No nucleus.
2. End walls of each cell is broken down, leaving a clear path.
3. The secondary cell wall is composed of cellulose and lignin making the sides impermeable to water.
Please note that Xylem vessels consists of dead cells.
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∙ 12y agoThe xylem is adapted by having lignified walls, which strengthen the xylem and prevent it collaspsing under the pressure of the transpiration stream. The end walls of the cells break down to allow a continuous tube for water transport. Also the xylem vessels are quite wide.
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∙ 12y agoit has a tube-like shape
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What plants have specialized tissues for transporting water?
Vascular plants The tissues are called xylem (water and minerals up) and phloem (sugar down)
Which transported in the xylem of a plant?
The Xylem of a plant transports water and some nutrients.
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
What is the internal transporting tissue in some plants that is made up of tube like structures?
there are two tissues, xylem and phloem
What is the tissue responsible for transporting water and minerals from the root to the stem and leaves?
The Xylem tissue transports water and nutrients from the roots.
What part of the plant is responsible for transporting water to the leaves of an angiosperm?
Xylem.
In a plant what type of tissue is responsible for transporting water and nutrients?
there are connective tissues in plants which helps them to transport water and nutrients.xylem helps plants ,in transporting water and minerals . and phloem helps plants to transport food from one place to another.
What are specialised tissues developed in multicellular organisms for transporting water from root to leaves?
Xylem
How is xylem cell adapted to carry out its function?
The xylem tube contain a ring of lignin which forms a spiral pattern around the xylem tube. The xylem is made up of water proof, dead cells; which enables it to have high capacity for transporting large quantity of water
What are the xylem and phloem of plants used for?
Xylem tissue is used mostly for transporting water from roots to stems and leaves but also transports other dissolved compounds. Phloem is responsible for transporting food produced from photosynthesis from leaves to non-photosynthesizing parts of a plant such as roots and stems.
What is an internal transporting system through which water and food move inside the plant called?
Conducting tissues (i.e. Xylem & phloem)
What plants have specialized tissues for transporting water?
Vascular plants The tissues are called xylem (water and minerals up) and phloem (sugar down)
What is the system that transports water from the roots to other parts of the plants?
The stem carries water from the roots to the rest of the plant. It has three parts, xylem, phloem, and cambium. The xylem carries sugars up, the phloem can go either way, and cambium is where sugars are made. Hope this helps! :D
How do pholem and xylem help maintain homeostasis in plants?
Tissues are a group of similar cells that together carry out different functions. In the case of the plant stem, for example, there is phloem for transporting food, and xylem for transporting water and minerals. Tissues have specific functions.
What are the functions of the tissues in a leaf?
The two functions that are served by vascular tissue is: Xylem - The process of transporting water from the roots to the aerial part of the plant. Pholem -The process in transporting the manufactured food from leaves to all through out the plant
What are the physical features of pteridophytes?
Pteridophytes includes plant species likes ferns, clubmosses and quilworts. They are vascular plant with food transporting phloem and water transporting xylem tissue. The have spore capsule in place of seeds.
