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Activity: cohesion of water what process exerts the pull on water molecules that is relayed from leaf to root via cohesion?

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The process is EVAPORATION.
In plants, as each water molecule evaporate, it pulls up the next water molecules and this set up a chain reaction in which one molecule pull along the next one. This process is made possible by the cohesion property of water.
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