Question

What is transportation?

Answer 1

Hint: Transportation as the name suggests is a process of transferring substances from one place to another.
It occurs using the xylem and phloem, xylem and phloem are also known as the vascular tissues, these are complex tissues that mean they are formed by the combination of more than one type of cell.

Complete answer: Transportation in plants refers to the process of transfer of water, solutes, and minerals from one place to another.
1. Plants are said to have two different types of complex tissues to aid transportation, namely the xylem and the phloem.
2. Xylem transport the water and minerals, while the phloem is responsible for the transport of solutes in the plant.
3. Xylem transport substances from the roots to other plant parts and the phloem transports the prepared food from the leaves to other plant parts.

Additional information: Direction of transport is an valuable aspect in plants.
In of rooted plants, transport in the xylem of both minerals and water is unidirectional from roots to stems. In this, mineral and organic nutrients perform multidirectional transport.
It contains the organic compounds that are formed during photosynthesis are exported to all parts of the plants with storage organs.
Water transports into the root from the soil and then steady it goes into the root xylem, making a column of water, which is slowly pushed upwards.
The different ways of transportation in plants are:
1. Simple diffusion
2. Facilitated diffusion
3. Osmosis
4. Active transport

Note: Transport of water and solute is though related but they are carried out by the xylem and phloem only. xylem is responsible for the transport of water and minerals while phloem for food and solute particles.