Roots

... at the rocky intertidal you will notice most seaweeds (algae) are flimsy in comparison to trees, etc. The water provides support. They don't have roots because they don't need them. Instead algal blades sometimes have holdfasts which simply keep the blade attached to the rock. The blade-water ...

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... where tetrapodomorphs lived was sort of like a modern-day mangrove swamp, where movement through water was often restricted by dense tree roots. It's possible that sturdy fins, gradually evolving into primitive legs, would have been more efficient for "climbing" or "crawling" ...

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... we have today. There's a lot of truth in this, since the Greeks contributed significantly to humanity's intellectual development. However, the roots of science can be traced back even further than the Greeks, at least as far as the Babylonians and Egyptians. I know, I'm a history nerd! And ...

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... in long-distance transport within a plant. For example, diffusion from one end of a cell to the other takes seconds, but diffusion from the roots to the top of a giant redwood would take decades or more... In xylem, it is actually tension (negative pressure) that drives long-distance transport... ...

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Hi im uncertain about this experiment which is used in my text book: Two plants, one with the roots intact and the other with its roots removed are kept in beakers of water in identical conditions The mass of the plants was measured each hour, and the results showed that ...

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