AS Transport in plants

Identify the tissue used as a packing tissue between more specialised structures. It is metabolically active and may have a variety of functions.

• Epidermis

• Phloem

• Parenchyma

• Endodermis

Identify the tissue that has a purely mechanical function (strength and support). Its walls have usually become impregnated with lignin.

• Sclerenchyma

• Parenchyma

• Epidermis

• Phloem

The image is a transverse section of which plant organ?

Most water evaporates from which tissue in the leaf?

• Waxy cuticle

• Upper epidermis

• Mesophyll

• Lower epidermis

State the term for plants with adaptations allowing them to survive in habitats where water is in short supply

State the term for a site in a plant which receives food from another part of the plant.

State the term for the membrane that surrounds plant vacuoles.

Identify the type of carbohydrate transported in the phloem.

• Glucose

• Sucrose

• Starch

• Maltose

State the term for the pore like structure in plant cell walls that allows for the controlled passage of substances between neighbouring cells.

The movement of water in the apoplast pathway is blocked by which waxy substance found in the Casparian strip?