NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Water ultimately enters the conducting cells of the xylem. Water can move between cells and through the cell walls and intercellular spaces in the apoplast pathway (apoplastic route) or between adjacent cytoplasms through plasmodesmata in the symplast pathway (symplastic route).

Detailed explanation-2: -Water moves from soil to root hair cell and then to cortical cell. It then passes through passage cells, pericycle and xylem.

Detailed explanation-3: -Movement of water into roots Water can get into xylem vessels by two routes-the symplast pathway and the apoplast pathway. If water travels via the symplast pathway then it travels from cell to cell through the cytoplasm. Neighbouring cells are connected by small channels in the cell walls called plasmodesmata.