Defintion | Keyword | % Correct |
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Transports water and minerals | Xylem | 90%
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Transports dissolved assimilates | Phloem | 75%
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The loss of water vapour from the aerial parts of a plant, mostly through the stomata in the leaves | Transpiration | 60%
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The attraction between water molecules and the walls of the xylem vessel | Adhesion | 55%
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The attraction between water molecules caused by hydrogen bonds | Cohesion | 50%
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The cells that help to load sucrose into the sieve tubes | Companion cells | 50%
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A device that can measure the rate of water uptake as a leafy stem transpires | Potometer | 50%
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A layer of dividing cells | Meristem | 40%
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Gaps in the cell wall containing cytoplasm that connects two cells | Plasmodesmata | 35%
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A part of the plant where assimilates are removed from the transport system | Sink | 35%
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A part of the plant that loads materials into the transport system | Source | 35%
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A plant adapted to living in dry conditions | Xerophyte | 35%
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A plant adapted to living in water or where the ground is very wet | Hydrophyte | 25%
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Consists of cells specialised for transporting fluids | Vascular tissue | 20%
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Substances that have become a part of the plant | Assimilates | 15%
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Make up the tubes in phloem tissue that carry sap up and down the plant | Sieve tube elements | 15%
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The transport of assimilates throughout a plant | Translocation | 15%
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The tubes which carry water up the plant | Xylem vessels | 15%
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Plants with two seed leaves and a branching pattern of veins in the leaf | Dicotyledonous plants | 0%
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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 | 0%
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Water enters the cell cytoplasm through the plasma membrane | The symplast pathway | 0%
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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 | 0%
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