BI-838
Transpiration pull
Biology · Secondary 3 · Medium · Transpiration pull
A leafy shoot is placed in a beaker of water. Water is pulled up from the roots to the leaves as water evaporates from the leaf surfaces. Which process directly explains how water and dissolved mineral salts move up the xylem in this situation?
- diffusion through the leaf mesophyll
- active transport in the root hairs
- transpiration pull in the xylem
- translocation in the phloem
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