Evidence for translocation
Biology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
Ringing, aphids and tracers show that food moves in living phloem, not in wood.
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- 8 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
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- Xylem and phloem
- Transpiration and translocation
- Why plants need transport tissues
- Inside a xylem vessel
- Inside a phloem sieve tube
- Vascular tissues in the root
- Vascular tissues in stem and leaf
- How roots take up water
- How roots take up mineral salts
- Apoplast, symplast and the Casparian strip
- Cohesion, tension and root pressure
- Using a potometer
- Investigating factors that change transpiration
- Other ways to show water movement
- Leaves that save water
- Mass flow in phloem
- Evidence for translocation
- Transport, crops and water in Kenya