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What do you understand by active transportation of minerals?


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Active transportation of minerals:

  1. Minerals in the root hairs are more concentrated than the soil still root hairs absorbs them.
  2. For this they use active transport.
  3. It is the movement of the molecules or ions of a substance from a region of their lower concentration to a region of their higher concentration region using energy.
  4. Active transport is the opposite of diffusion.

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