Breifly describe the cohesion-tension theory in plants?
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Water evaporates from the cells and leaves the plant once the stomata open,
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This creates a suction which pulls more water into the leaf
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As water is cohesive due to hydrogen bonds, when one molecule moves other tend to follow, the whole column of the xylem moves upwards
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Water enters through the roots
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