NEET BIOLOGY

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

TRANSPORT IN PLANT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Plant veins transport water, dissolve nutrients, and sugars through the xylem and pholoem.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The two primary vascular tissues are xylem, which transports water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the leaves, and phloem, which conducts food from the leaves to all parts of the plant.

Detailed explanation-2: -Once sugar is unloaded at the sink cells, the s increases, causing water to diffuse by osmosis from the phloem back into the xylem. This movement of water out of the phloem causes p to decrease, reducing the turgor pressure in the phloem at the sink and maintaining the direction of bulk flow from source to sink.

Detailed explanation-3: -Xylem and phloem facilitate the transportation of water, minerals and food throughout the plant. Xylem carries water and minerals from the roots to the leaves. Whereas, phloem carries the food prepared by the leaves to different parts of the plant.

Detailed explanation-4: -The xylem distributes water and dissolved minerals upward through the plant, from the roots to the leaves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Veins are composed of xylem and phloem cells embedded in parenchyma, sometimes sclerenchyma, and surrounded by bundle sheath cells. The vein xylem transports water from the petiole throughout the lamina mesophyll, and the phloem transports sugars out of the leaf to the rest of the plant.

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