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प्रश्न
The figure shows a diagrammatic representation of the movement of certain substances inside the stem of a certain plant. Write five sentences on whatever you can explain about the processes or the arrangement of structures indicated in the diagram.
Note: - Each sentence must include one or more of the following four words, and each word can be used several times. Xylem, phloem, roots, leaves.

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उत्तर
(i) Plants absorb water by their roots.
(ii) Roots supply water to the stem and leaves of the plant.
(iii) In root hairs, the xylem is not fully mature and the endodermis and epidermis are permeable to water.
(iv) Water is absorbed by the plants through xylem in all directions.
(v) The food on the other hand is transported with the help of phloem.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Name the following:
The process by which water enters root hairs.
Draw a cross-section of root showing association of soil particles with root hairs.
The diagram given below represents the result of an experiment conducted on two freshly taken shoots of a green herbaceous plant. The lower ends dip in the water.

(i) What is the aim of the experiment?
(ii) Some parts of the stem in both the shoots have been removed. Name the conducting tissue in shoot A and in shoot B, that has been removed.
(iii) What are the results of this experiment?
Name the following:
Root hairs are the extension of which cells.
Name the following:
The solution outside the cell having lower solute concentration than the fluids.
Mention, if the following statement is True or False. If false rewrite the wrong statement in its correct form:
Xylem is the water-conducting tissue in plants.
Identify the zone in wbkh root hair occurs.
____________ regions are present in a typical root.
Which plant does tissue transport water and minerals from the roots to the leaf?
Look at Figure. Draw another figure of the same set-up as would be observed after a few hours.

