Trace the pathway in a flowering plant as the water moves from the soil through the tissues of the root, stem, and leaves to the atmosphere. Explain the mechanisms involved in conducting water through these tissues. A very basic overview of water through a flowering plant starts at the roots. The roots absorb water and dissolved minerals from the soil. The roots exchange gases with the air spaces of soil, taking in oxygen and discharging …showed first 75 words of 2255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2255 total…a sporophyte. Ferns have flagellated sperm in which it self fertilizes itself. In the flowering plant the embryo is protected by its enlarged cotyledons or by the endosperm or by both. The embryo and its food supply are enclosed by a seed coat formed from the integument of the ovule, the progenitor of the seed. The fern spores are developed within the fern itself. The spores before they are released are protected by the sporangium.