A Level Biology - Transport in plants

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Defintion	Keyword
Consists of cells specialised for transporting fluids	Vascular tissue
Plants with two seed leaves and a branching pattern of veins in the leaf	Dicotyledonous plants
Transports dissolved assimilates	Phloem
Transports water and minerals	Xylem
Substances that have become a part of the plant	Assimilates
Water enters the cell cytoplasm through the plasma membrane	The symplast pathway
The loss of water vapour from the aerial parts of a plant, mostly through the stomata in the leaves	Transpiration
Gaps in the cell wall containing cytoplasm that connects two cells	Plasmodesmata
Water is not confined to the cytoplasm of the cells and is able to enter and pass through the vacuoles as well	The vacuolar pathway
The cells that help to load sucrose into the sieve tubes	Companion cells
A device that can measure the rate of water uptake as a leafy stem transpires	Potometer

Defintion	Keyword
The attraction between water molecules caused by hydrogen bonds	Cohesion
The tubes which carry water up the plant	Xylem vessels
A plant adapted to living in dry conditions	Xerophyte
The attraction between water molecules and the walls of the xylem vessel	Adhesion
Water passes through the spaces in the cell walls and between the cells, but does not pass through any plasma membranes into the cells	The apoplast pathway
A part of the plant where assimilates are removed from the transport system	Sink
A part of the plant that loads materials into the transport system	Source
The transport of assimilates throughout a plant	Translocation
A layer of dividing cells	Meristem
A plant adapted to living in water or where the ground is very wet	Hydrophyte
Make up the tubes in phloem tissue that carry sap up and down the plant	Sieve tube elements