Arrange and rewrite the terms in each group in correct order to be in a logical sequence beginning with the term that is underlined:
Xylem, SOIL WATER, Cortical cells, Root hair. (Begin with: Soil water)
Topic: Path of water into the root
Answer
Soil water → Root hair → Cortical cells → Xylem
This traces water from the soil into the plant’s transport system: SOIL WATER surrounds the root it enters the ROOT HAIR by OSMOSIS, because the cell sap is more concentrated than the soil water it passes across the CORTICAL CELLS, each drawing from the one before it and reaches the XYLEM, which carries it up the stem
THE DRIVING FORCE is a chain of osmotic gradients: each cell inward is slightly more concentrated than the one outside it, so water is passed along from cell to cell until it reaches the xylem.
From the xylem the journey continues as the ASCENT OF SAP, pulled up by transpiration from the leaves.