How water and food move in a plant

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1. How water and food move in a plant
2. Transpiration: the pull that lifts water
3. Root hairs: the plant’s drinking surface
4. Mineral salts: uptake against the gradient
5. Inside xylem: dead tubes that hold a tree up
6. Cohesion, adhesion and the unbroken column
7. Inside phloem: living tubes for food
8. Ringing a shoot: evidence for translocation
9. Stomata and guard cells
10. Investigating transpiration with a potometer
11. Other ways to investigate transpiration
12. Transport, transpiration and plant life in Kenya