How are water and minerals absorbed into the roots?

Q: What nutrients do plants need, and how are those nutrients acquired from the environment?

A: Any substance that a plant requires to survive, reproduce, and grow is a nutrient for the plant. The…

Q: Are the xylem and thephloem made of living cells?

A: Xylem and phloem are the two types of vascular tissues, present in plants and together constitute…

Q: How are roots able to concentrate some nutrients and exclude others?

A: To describe: How roots are able to concentrate some nutrients and exclude others

Q: What plant tissue systems are modified by root nodule formation?

A: A nodule can be defined as the swelling on the root of a leguminous plant, such as the pea or…

Q: How are root hairs adapted for nutrient absorption in soil?

A: The soil is the major source of nutrition available to the plants. Their growth and development…

Q: What is senescence? Describe some changes that accompany leaf senescence in the fall. Which hormone…

A: Plants have two types of tissues:  Permanent tissues: Tissues that do not have ability to divide,…

Q: What causes the outermost tissues of a woody stem or root to become pushed outward and expanded?

A: Cork cambium is a tissue present in most of the vascular plants as part of the epidermis. It is one…

Q: What affect will roots have on pore space?

A: Pore space can be defined as the porosity of a substance that has free space between the mineral…

Q: What are the steps involved in formation of a root nodule?

A: Root nodules are present on the roots of plants, primarily legumes, that forms a symbiosis with…

Q: What happens to the radicle of the taproot and fibrous root systems?

A: In a germinated seed we find, three most important parts which are plumule, radicle and the…

Q: What do healthy and unhealthy root systems look like?

A: Root systems of the plant body is typically the organ system that involves the transportation or…

Q: Where do branch roots originate?

A: A branch from main root is known has branch root

Q: What is the texture of Potato, onion, turnip, carrot, and ginger?

A: Stem is a vegetative organ which acts as a central axis of plants to which several other organs are…

Q: Are thicker roots (oak tree) better than thinner roots (palm tree)? Do thicker roots absorb more…

A: root, is a part of a vascular plant normally underground. Its primary functions are anchorage of the…

Q: When you look at a head of cabbage or lettuce, what are you seeing? Where is the stem? What about…

A: The two main axes of a plant are root and stem. The stem remains above the ground and have leaves on…

Q: What essential role does the root endodermis play during mineral absorption in plants?

A: The plants are the multicellular eukaryotic organism in the kingdom Plantae. It is characterised by…

Q: Why is it that the wall of the epidermis in the root area has no cuticle and has thin walls?

A: The epidermis layer is the outermost layer of the plant part. It provides protection to the inner…

Q: What are the different types of plant growth ?

A: Most of the plants continue to grow for their whole life. Just like the other multicellular…

Q: how roots are protected as they grow through soil?

A: Plants are multicellular and eukaryotic organisms. Plant body is made of shoot and root. Shoots are…

Q: Differentiate taproot system from fibrous root system.

A: The downward growing portion of the plant axis is known as the root system. The root performs the…

Q: What type of plant problems result from nitrogen and calcium deficiencies?

A: All plants require biotic and abiotic factors such as, sunlight, proper temperature, moisture, air,…

Q: Which are the planttissues that form the plantroots?

A: Plants are the living organisms which synthesize their own food by photosynthesis. In photosynthesis…

Q: What are the different types of Plant Growth?

A: Introduction In this question we will discuss about the different types of plant growth.

Q: How does the amount of available mineral nutrients affect plant growth?

A: The growth and development of of plants depend mainly on the concentration and  combination of…

Q: What is the function of the root hairs? Describe the relationship between root hairs and the…

A: Roots are the underground part of the plant. They are one of the major parts of a plant and they…

Q: Structure and functions of root hair cells?

A: The root hair cell is an epidermal offshoot that forms hairs of the root of the plant.  Essentially,…

Q: WHAT SUBSTANCE IS PRESENT IN THE ROOT?

A: Roots are the underground parts of the plant that help in the absorption of dissolved minerals and…

Q: How are the thin and permeable roots needed for water and nutrient uptake able to penetrate and grow…

A: Roots are the primary mechanical structures whose function is to establish plant in the soil and…

Plant sensory system

The plant sensory system is a sophisticated system that responds to environmental stimuli such as light,temperature, gravity, and touch. Research predicts that plant hormones and signaling mechanisms areresponsible for this regulation system in plants.