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Describe a plant’s circulatory system.

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Water and dissolved minerals enter a plant's roots from the soil by means of diffusion and osmosis. These substances then travel upward in the plant in xylem vessels. The transpiration theory ascribes this ascending flow to a pull from above, caused by transpiration, the evaporation of water from leaves. The long water column stays intact due to the strong cohesion between water molecules. Carbohydrates, produced in leaves by photosynthesis, travel downward in plants in specialized tissue, phloem. This involves active transport of sugars into phloem cells and water pressure to force substances from cell to cell.

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A plant's circulatory system is the way for a plant to get carbon dioxide and nutrients to every cell in its system. It is also the way for a plant to get rid of toxins and waste from its system. In a plant's circulatory system, the nutrients a plant needs to survive travels upwards from the roots of the plan to the rest of it's system, and the toxins and waste is secreted from its extremeties located above the ground.
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