What is the function of the xylem in a plant?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Transporting water and minerals upward from the roots
- Step 1: Xylem vessels are dead, hollow tubes with strengthened walls.
- Step 2: They carry water and dissolved minerals up the plant.
Answer
Transporting water and minerals upward from the roots.
Why not the others: Transporting sugars from leaves to the roots: this is phloem. Absorbing light for photosynthesis: this happens in chloroplasts. Opening and closing the stomata: this is the job of guard cells.
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