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Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Plant Structure, Nutrition, and Transport

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31.1: Activity: How plants are built

Test your recall for figure 31.2 with this key figure labeling exercise.

31.2: Activity: How plants regulate water loss
ThumbnailUse this interactive simulation to explore how light, water availability, and the internal carbon dioxide concentrations affect the opening and closing of guard cells.

31.3: Activity: Identify the parts of the vascular system of a plant

Test your recall for figure 31.5 with this key figure labeling exercise.

31.4: Activity: Leaf structure

Test your recall for figure 31.9 with this key figure labeling exercise.

31.5: Tutorial: Pressure flow in plants
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This tutorial examines how plants use water pressure to transport sugar in phloem tissue from the leaves, where it is produced, to parts of the plant that consume sugar.

31.6: Tutorial: Transport in xylem tissue
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This tutorial explores how plants move water and dissolved mineral nutrients in xylem tissue.

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