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Tracing Water and Photosynthate Transport, Worked

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This procedure traces one plant's water and sugar movement from soil uptake through xylem ascent to phloem delivery at a growing sink.

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Confusing the two systems' direction is the most common error — xylem flow runs only upward, while phloem flow runs toward whichever sink needs sugar, sometimes downward and sometimes upward in the same plant at once.