Plant Growth and Transport

This is a diagram of a transverse section through a dicotyledonous stem. Label parts A - f.

Which of the above tissue types has a different location in a young root?

What is the function of ground tissue?

• Protection

• Support

• Transport

• Photosynthesis

What is the function of meristematic tissue?

Explain how water enters root hairs and then passes to the vascular tissue.

In which of the vascular tissues will water now rise through the plant?

Give two features of the tissue referred to in the last question that facilitate the upward movement of water.

Name and explain any two processes involved in the upward movement of water in plants.

Name the two scientists involved in the Cohesion-Tension theory.