What Is Translocation

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How is water transported in plants

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Why do higher organisms need a transport system?

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Question 5
How is food transported in plants?

Q. is the movement of materials from leaves to other tissues throughout the plant.

1. Translocation
2. Transpiration
3. Osmosis
4. Active transport

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Define the term translocation.

Q. The ascending limb of Henle and the early distal tubule are __(i)__ to water. These regions actively transport __(ii)__ out of the filtrate and into the surroundings.

1. Impermeable to water and Sodium chloride (NaCl)
2. Permeable to water and Potassium
3. Impermeable to water and Potassium
4. Permeable to water and Chloride

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Water rises in the stem through the phloem.

1. True

2. False

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Transport over longer distances through xylem and phloem is called __

1. Translocation

2. Transpiration

3. Osmosis

4. Active transport

Q. is the movement of materials from leaves to other tissues throughout the plant.

1. translocation
2. transpiration
3. osmosis
4. active transport

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Process by which food substances are moved to rest of the plant by phloem is known as

1. translocation

2. respiration

3. photosynthesis

4. transpiration

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Scientists take advantage of _________ in studying translocation by pholem.

1. Ants

2. Aphids

3. Bees

4. Butterflies

Q. Downward flow of organic and even some inorganic solutes takes place from the leaves through the stem by way of

1. Phloem by mass flow of solutes from higher turgor pressure of leaf mesophyll cells along a turgor pressure gradient in phloem cells
2. Phloem by diffusion
3. Phloem by protoplasmic streaming
4. All parenchymatous cells of the stem by diffusion of solute downward