Question

What are the two pathways a plant follows for the movement of water through it's body?

• A. Symplast and tonoplast
• B. Symplast and apoplast
• C. Tonoplast and apoplast
• D. Symplast and vacuolar pathway

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Symplast and apoplast

Symplast and apoplast

The entire plant body is connected through plasmodesmata which are nothing but the protoplasmic strands forming the symplast system. The movement of water through the cells uses this symplast pathway. The apoplast is formed by cell wall and the intercellular spaces which helps in water movement inside the plant by the phenomenon of capillarity and adsorption.
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