NEET BIOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

KINGDOM PLANTAE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Xylem moves water up from the roots throughout the rest of the plant
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Plants use two different systems for transportation. Xylem moves water and solutes from the roots to the leaves and phloem moves food-substances from leaves to the rest of the plant.

Detailed explanation-2: -As transpiration occurs, it deepens the meniscus of water in the leaf, creating negative pressure (also called tension or suction). The tension created by transpiration “pulls” water in the plant xylem, drawing the water upward in much the same way that you draw water upward when you suck on a straw.

Detailed explanation-3: -XYLEM. Water travels from a tree’s roots to its canopy by way of this conductive tissue. There are many different processes occuring within trees that allow them to grow. One is the movement of water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves in the canopy, or upper branches.

Detailed explanation-4: -The cohesion – tension theory of sap ascent explains how how water is pulled up from the roots to the top of the plant. Evaporation from mesophyll cells in the leaves produces a negative water potential gradient that causes water and minerals to move upwards from the roots through the xylem.

Detailed explanation-5: -The vascular tissues of these plants are called xylem and phloem. The xylem of vascular plants consists of dead cells placed end to end that form tunnels through which water and minerals move upward from the roots (where they are taken in) to the rest of the plant.

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