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Name: Divi K.
Status: student
Age: 15
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Date: 4/29/2003
Question:
how do cohesive and adhesive forces help in the rise of water in the stem of a plant? how can water rise in the opposite direction of gravity and reach to the most high point of the plant?

Replies:
Possibly helpful:

http://www.fastplants.org/instructions/environment.html

http://www.wright.edu/biology/courses/304/Lect2Water.html

Anthony Brach, Ph.D


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