{Food Delivery, described and explained}
Our baby's gotta eat!!
Our little darling needs the proper amount of food, water, and love in order to survive, thrive, and grown big and strong like his parents! He does this through translocation. Translocation is the movement of sugars throughout the plant. Translocation operates through a complex system devised of sources and sinks.
Sources are where the sugar enters the phloem. Sinks are tissues where sugar exits the phloem.
But wait just a second! Phloem is a big word for a little guy who can barely say "plant." Lets slow it down and talk through this so our little einstein can better understand: Phloem is the main structure that operates within the sugar delivery and reception system.
The phloem operates in conjunction with xylem. This is because at each source the amount of sucrose is at such a high concentration that water flows from the xylem into the phloem, moving the sucrose into areas with less sucrose concentrations (AKA the sink).
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