NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The symplastic pathway: It provides the movement of water from one cell to another cell by plasmodesmata. Symplast is the inner side of the plasma membrane.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the apoplast pathway, water is transported from root hair to xylem through the cell wall of intervening cells. Apoplastic water movement beyond the cortex is blocked by the Casparian strip of endodermal cells. Hence, the symplastic route is utilised to deliver water and ions beyond the cortex.

Detailed explanation-3: -The symplast is the pathway in which the water molecules moves through the plasmodesmata region in the cells. The symplast is the living region present between two cells which connects one cell with the other. The apoplast pathway is the path in which the water is moving between the intercellular spaces.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the apoplast pathway (apoplastic route), water moves through the spaces between the cells and in the cells walls themselves.

Detailed explanation-5: -After traveling from the roots to stems through the xylem, water enters leaves via petiole (i.e., the leaf stalk) xylem that branches off from that in the stem.