Pathway Taken by Water (Cambridge International IGCSE Science)

Pathway Taken by Water

• Osmosis causes water to pass into the root hair cells, through the root cortex and into the xylem vessels:
• Once the water gets into the xylem, it is carried up to the leaves where it enters mesophyll cells
• So the pathway is:

root hair cell → root cortex cells → xylem → leaf mesophyll cells

Pathway of water into and across a root