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Using a potometer

Biology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes

Set up, read a bubble, calculate a rate - and know that you measured uptake, not loss.

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Other lessons in this sub-strand

  1. Xylem and phloem
  2. Transpiration and translocation
  3. Why plants need transport tissues
  4. Inside a xylem vessel
  5. Inside a phloem sieve tube
  6. Vascular tissues in the root
  7. Vascular tissues in stem and leaf
  8. How roots take up water
  9. How roots take up mineral salts
  10. Apoplast, symplast and the Casparian strip
  11. Cohesion, tension and root pressure
  12. Using a potometer
  13. Investigating factors that change transpiration
  14. Other ways to show water movement
  15. Leaves that save water
  16. Mass flow in phloem
  17. Evidence for translocation
  18. Transport, crops and water in Kenya