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Transport In Plants Flashcards

1
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What are the 3 main reasons a plant needs a transport system?

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1- Metabolic demands
2- Size
3- SA:V ratio

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What is a dicot plant?

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Make seeds that contain 2 cotyledons - organs that acts as food stores for the developing embryo and form the first leaves when the seed first germinates

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In the stem of a herbaceous dicot, where are the vascular bundles?

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Around the edge for strength and support

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What is a vascular bundle?

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The xylem and phloem grouped together

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In a herbaceous dicot root, where is the vascular bundle found?

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In the middle to help the plant withstand the tugging strain from wind

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In a herbaceous dicot leaf, where are the vascular bundles found?

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In midrib which also helps to structure the leaf

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What is a midrib?

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The main vein in a leaf that carries the vascular bundle

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What are the 2 main functions of the xylem?

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  • Transport water / mineral ions

- Support

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What are xylem vessels?

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  • The main structures in the xylem

- They are long, hollow structures of dead cells fused end to end

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How is lignin relevant to the xylem?

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  • Lines the walls of xylem vessels in ring, spiral or tube form
  • Contain many bordered pits (unlignified areas) to allow water to leave
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What is the phloem?

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Living tissue that transports organic solutes around the plant

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In what direction can organic solutes in the phloem travel?

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Both up and down the plant

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What are sieve tube elements?

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Unlignified hollow structures that are the main transport vessels of the phloem

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What are sieve plates?

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Thin pores between sieve tube cells to allow phloem contents out

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How are companion cells linked to the sieve tube elements?

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Via many plasmodesmata

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What are plasmodesmata?

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Microscopic channels through cell wall linking the cytoplasm of adjacent cells

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What do companion cells do?

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  • Supports sieve tube elements

- Provides ATP (sieve tube cells have no mitochondria)

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What are root hair cells?

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Exchange surface in plants where water is taken in from the soil

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How are root hair cells adapted to perform their function?

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  • Microscopic size to easily penetrate the soil
  • Large SA:V ratio
  • Thin surface layer allows for a short diffusion and osmosis pathway
  • High water potential gradient between cell and soil water
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What are the 2 possible pathways water can take through a root hair cell?

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Apoplast and symplast

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Describe the symplast pathway

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  • Water moves across plasma membrane by osmosis

- Moves between cytoplasm of one cell to the next via plasmodesmata

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Describe the apoplast pathway

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  • Water and minerals move through the cell walls
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What is the endodermis?

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The layer of cells surrounding the vascular tissue in the roots

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24
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What is the Casparian Strip?

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A band of waxy suberin that runs around each of the endodermal cells forming a waterproof layer

25
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What is the function of the Casparian Strip?

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  • Impermeable to water so forces water from apoplast pathway through the cell membrane (symplast pathway)
  • Membrane repels charged particles
26
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Why do xylem cells have a much lower water potential than the endodermal cells?

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Solute concentration in endodermal cells is relatively dilute

27
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Once inside the vascular bundle, water takes which pathway up the xylem?

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Apoplast

28
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What helps to give water a push up the xylem?

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Root pressure

29
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How is root pressure generated?

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The pumping of minerals into the xylem producing movement of water by osmosis

30
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What is some evidence for the role of active transport in root pressure?

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  • Adding cyanide to root cells
  • Active transport requires energy released by ATP and cyanide affects mitochondria, where ATP is held. When cyanide is added to root cells, root pressure stops
  • Root pressure rises with temperature increases and falls with a fall in temperature
  • This suggests chemical reactions are involved, i.e the breaking of the phosphates in ATP
  • If oxygen levels fall, root pressure falls
  • Oxygen is needed for respiration to release energy
31
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Why is water required in a leaf?

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A leaf is the site of photosynthesis and water is required for photosynthesis

32
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Why is carbon dioxide required in a leaf?

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A leaf is the site of photosynthesis and carbon dioxide is required for photosynthesis

33
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What is transpiration?

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The loss of water vapour from the leaves and stems of plants via stomata

34
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What are 3 adaptations of the leaf to aid transpiration?

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1- Large SA - captures sunlight to carry out PHS
2- Waxy cuticle - makes leaf waterproof preventing too much water loss by evaporation
3- Stomata - can be opened or closed by guard cells to allow gases to diffuse in or out

35
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How does water move in the transpiration stream?

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By mass flow

36
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What is mass flow?

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All water molecules move together as one body, helped by cohesion and tension

37
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What is capillary action?

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  • Water molecules attached to lignin in xylem walls

- Adhesion and cohesion move water upwards

38
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What is the benefit of narrow vessel diameter in terms of capillary action?

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Prevents the formation of air bubbles

39
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Describe the process of transpiration

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  • Water molecules evaporate from the surface of mesophyll cells into the air spaces in the leaf and then out via stomata to the surrounding air by diffusion
  • This lowers the water potential of the mesophyll cell, so water moves into this cell by osmosis
  • This is repeated across the leaf to the xylem
  • Capillary action occurs in the xylem as water moves up to replace the water lost in the leaf
40
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What is the cohesion-tension theory?

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  • Transpiration of water through stomata
  • Creates low pressure at top of xylem
  • Water is pulled up, creating tension
  • Water molecules stick to each other (cohesion)
  • Water molecules are sucked up to the leaves (like a straw)
41
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What is the evidence to support cohesion-tension theory?

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  • Changes in the Diameter of Trees
  • When transpiration is at its highest during the day, xylem tension is at its highest so the diameter shrinks
  • When transpiration is at its lowest, the tension in the xylem is at its lowest and the tree diameter increases
  • Breaking a Xylem Vessel
  • Breaking a xylem vessel causes air to be drawn into the xylem and this stops the continuous flow of water molecules
42
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Why may high light intensity be an issue for the transpiration of plants?

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  • High light intensity means photosynthesis will be occuring at a rapid rate
  • Therefore a lot of gaseous exchange will be occuring and the stomata will be open frequently
  • This could mean that the plant loses too much water via the stomata
43
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What piece of equipment measures transpiration?

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Potometer

44
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Why may measuring transpiration not be 100% accurate?

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Measuring water loss is difficult so water uptake is measured and we make the assumption that water uptake = water loss

45
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Draw and label a potometer

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-

46
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Why is the stem of the leaf used in a potometer cut at an angle?

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To increase its surface area

47
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What factors affect transpiration?

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  • Light - more light increases rate (as it opens stomata)
  • Temperature - higher temperature increases rate (as increases KE)
  • Humidity - less humidity increases rate(as increases water vapour gradient)
  • Wind - more wind increases rate (as increases water vapour gradient)
48
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What is translocation?

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The process of transporting organic solutes from source to sink (requires energy)

49
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In translocation, what are the products of photosynthesis to be transported called?

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Assimilates

50
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What is the main assimilate transported in translocation?

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Sucrose

51
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Explain the process of translocation of assimilates from source to sink
(Mass flow hypothesis)

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Source:

  • High conc of solutes, e.g. sucrose
  • Active transport of solute from companion cell into sieve tube element
  • Decreases water potential
  • Water moves in by osmosis from companion cell and xylem
  • Creates high hydrostatic pressure in phloem

Sink:

  • Uses, breaks down or converts the solute into something else
  • Creates a low concentration of solute (e.g. sucrose into starch)
  • Increases water potential
  • Water moves out by osmosis
  • Decreases pressure in phloem
52
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Explain the process of active loading into companion cells

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  • Active transport of H+
  • Out of companion cells
  • Creates H ion concentration gradient
  • Facilitated diffusion if H+ back into companion cells
  • Assimilates (sucrose) move in with H+
  • By co-transport
53
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What is the evidence to support translocation?

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  1. Radioactive labelling
    - Use radioactive C14 label
    - Grow plants in C14 atmosphere
    - Measure C14 as it moves down stem
  2. Ringing experiments
    - Remove bark in a ring from the tree trunk (contains phloem but not xylem)
    - Solutes can’t move up or down
    - Bulge forms about the ring
    - Fluid above the ring has more solutes, e.g. sugars than below
    - Evidence the solutes are moving down
54
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What are xerophytes?

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Plants that are adapted to living in dry environments

55
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What are the adaptations of xerophytes?

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  • Curled leaves
  • Stomata sunken in pits
  • Hairs on epidermis
    (Water vapour builds up and decreases water vapour gradient)
  • Thick waxy cuticle (reduces evaporation)
  • Fewer stomata (less opportunities for the water vapour to come out)
56
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What are hydrophytes?

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Plants that are adapted to living in/on water

E.g. water lilies

57
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What are the adaptations of hydrophytes?

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  • Air spaces in leaves (leaves float on surface of water so more light for PHS)
  • Long, flexible leaf stalks (leaves don’t break off in current so don’t need to support any weight)
  • Stomata on upper surface (allows gas exchange and prevents air spaces filling with water)
  • Large, thin leaves (increase SA for gas exchange)
58
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Name the 7 structures of a leaf in order from top to bottom

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1- Waxy cuticle
2- Upper epidermis
3- Palisade cells
4- Spongy mesophyll
5- Lower epidermis
6- Guard cells
7- Stomata

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