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_________ is the phenomenon by which living or dead plant cells absorb water by surface attraction and gets swelled up.

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Absorption of water by the plant cells by surface attraction is called:

(a) Diffusion (b) Osmosis

(c) Imbibition (d) Endosmosis

Q. Water and dissolved minerals get into the root hair of a plant by a process called A and enter the conducting tissue B. The process C helps the water and dissolved minerals to move up through the tissue B in roots and stem, and reach the leaves of a plant. In the leaves food is made by a process D. This food is then transported to all the parts of a plant through tissue E. The process of distributing food made in the leaves to all the parts of the plants is called F.
(a) What are (i) A (ii) B (iii) C (iv) D (v) E, and (vi) F?
(b) Which tissue is made up of living cells : B or E?
(c) Which tissue, B or E, contains sieve tubes?
(d) Which tissue, B or E, contains tracheids?

Q. The phenomenon by which living or dead plant cells absorb water by surface attraction.

Q. Name the phenomenon by which living or dead plant cells absorb water by surface attraction.

Give the biological/technical term for the following:

(c) The phenomenon by which living or dead plant cells absorb water by surface attraction.

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