AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Final answer: Roots are the part of plants that absorb water and minerals from the soil.

Detailed explanation-2: -Essentially all of the water used by land plants is absorbed from the soil by roots. A root system consists of a complex network of individual roots that vary in age along their length.

Detailed explanation-3: -Roots. The roots’ functions are to absorb nutrients and moisture, anchor the plant in the soil, support the stem and store food.

Detailed explanation-4: -root, in botany, that part of a vascular plant normally underground. Its primary functions are anchorage of the plant, absorption of water and dissolved minerals and conduction of these to the stem, and storage of reserve foods.

Detailed explanation-5: -The responsibility of absorption of water and minerals is more specifically the function of the root hairs that are present in millions at the tips of the roots. Root hairs are thin-walled slender extensions of root epidermal cells, that greatly increase the surface area for absorption.