Water enter into sieve tubes containing sugar by the process of ___.

translocation

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absorption

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osmosis

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fixation

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Solution

The correct option is C osmosis
Osmosis is the movement of solvent through a plasma membrane from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration.
Similarly as the concentration of sucrose in the phloem increases, water enters the sieve tubes by osmosis. The water enters from any surrounding tissues, such as the xylem, that have lower solute concentrations than the phloem.

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