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Assignment:
Please answer all of the steps and questions but please make the answers clear but not too long
1. Structure of a water molecule, explanation of H-bonding, cohesion/adhesion and thermal properties.
2. Explain how the cohesion/adhesion properties allow water to travel up the root.
One pager on osmosis
Include tonicity and compare/contrast passive and active transport.
Provide a cladogram for the FOUR PLANT PHYLA
3. Root Page:
• Explain why roots are hypertonic relative to the soil.
4. Outline the role of active transport in maintaining root tonicity.
•Describe how water enters roots from the soil.
•Contrast mineral uptake with water uptake in the roots.
•Compare symplastic and apoplastic pathways of water transport through the root.
5. Xylem structure page:
• Describe the structure of the xylem.
• Outline how xylem is able to maintain rigidity even under low pressure or mechanical disturbance.