Introduction

Question 1

Translocation?

Answer 1

and by cytoplasmic streaming supplemented by active transport.
Transport over longer distances proceeds through the vascular system
(the xylem and the phloem) and is called translocation.

Question 2

In rooted plants, transport in xylem (of ……and …..) is
essentially….from roots to the stems.

Answer 2

Water and minerals
Unidirectional

Question 3

……and ….. however, undergo multidirectional transport

Answer 3

Organic nutrients
and
mineral nutrients

Question 4

…. synthesised in the photosynthetic leaves are exported to all
other parts of the plant including …

Answer 4

Organic compounds
Storage organs

Question 5

From the storage organs
Organic compounds are later …

Answer 5

Reexported

Question 6

The ….are taken up by the
roots and transported upwards into the stem, leaves and the growing
regions.

Answer 6

Mineral nutrients

Question 7

When any plant part undergoes senescence, nutrients may be…

Answer 7

withdrawn from such regions and moved to the growing parts.

Question 8

1…2..and 3…are also transported,
though in very small amounts, sometimes in a strictly …. or…
manner from where they are synthesised to other parts.

Answer 8

1.Hormones
2.plant growth regulators and 3.other chemical stimuli
polarised
unidirectional

Question 9

Hence, in a flowering plant there is a ….. (but probably very orderly) moving in different directions, each organ receiving
some substances and giving out some others.

Answer 9

Complex traffic of compounds