Xylem, phloem and water uptake

Step 1 of 18 · Plan the test

Predict

How does water get from the roots to the top of a plant? Celery “sticks” are leaf stalks. Standing in water, they take it up at the cut end. A dye in the water shows where the water goes.Celery stalks will stand in red dye. Later you will cut across a stalk. Where on the cut surface do you think the red will be?

Your slices will appear here in a table as you cut each stalk.

Equipment

Cutting board

A white board. A stalk lies along the scale at the back with its cut end at 0. Each slice goes into its stalk's row, A to D, under the height where it was cut: 4, 10 or 16 cm from the cut end.