The transpiration that moves water through xylem is ultimately powered by _______.

To move dissolved sucrose through phloem, a plant must first _______ sucrose into _______ cells. This produces an osmosis that results in a fluid _______ that transports the sucrose.

Unlike the case with animals, plant growth comes only at ______ of roots and shoots and can go on ______.

Everything in the plant ultimately develops from ______ tissue, through collections of this tissue known as ______.

Most plants fall into the category of the broad-leafed _______, but many of out most important food crops are narrow-leafed _______.

Dermal tissue is tissue located at the _______ of a plant, while vascular tissue forms a plant’s _______ system.

Xylem is the tissue through which _____ and _______ flow, while phloem is the tissue that conducts the _______.

The primary function of roots is to absorb _____ and __________.

The primary function of leaves is to serve as sites of _______.

Flowers are the _______ structures of plants.

The “race for sunlight” in plants led to the evolution of the tallest living things in existence, trees. But sunlight is not the only thing that stands to make a tree successful or not in reproducing. Think about how plants function and then answer this question: What are the costs of being taller, as opposed to shorter?