Your friend claims that phloem always carries sugars down a plant...

Question

Your friend claims that phloem always carries sugars down a plant. What, if anything, is wrong with that statement?

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So what is the correct direction of sugar transport by the flow? Um so in order to solve this problem, we are going to think about it in this way. Where is sugar created in the plant? While sugar is created in sites where photosynthesis takes place and this is mostly going to be in the leaves. So this is where transport begins. Sugar is created here. So this is going to be called the source. Now, where is this sugar transported to in the plant? Well, this sugar is transported to sites of active growth and the sides include the stem, flowers or fruits. Where growth is usually constantly taking place because this is the last point in the transport chain. This is going to be called the sink. So remember or commit to memory that the flow um transport sugars from the source to the sink and that is represented by answer choice. So we're going to highlight that as a final answer to our question. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you in the next one.

Your friend claims that phloem always carries sugars down a plant. What, if anything, is wrong with that statement?

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