Which statement describes the transport of nutrients in nonvascular plants?

Nutrients are absorbed from the environment and pass from cell to cell.

Nutrients are absorbed from the environment and pass through the vascular

tissues.

Nutrients are absorbed through the roots and pass from cell to cell.

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Conor Bender

Chemistry

30 October, 08:36

Which statement describes the transport of nutrients in nonvascular plants?

Nutrients are absorbed from the environment and pass from cell to cell.

Nutrients are absorbed from the environment and pass through the vascular

tissues.

Nutrients are absorbed through the roots and pass from cell to cell.

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Alayna Armstrong · Answer 1

Nutrients are absorbed from the environment and pass from cell to cell.

Explanation:

Nonvascular plants do not have any special internal channels to carry nutrients. Instead, they absorb nutrients directly into their leaves.

The nutrients then move throughout the plant by diffusion from cell to cell.

B is wrong. By definition, nonvascular plants have no vascular tissue.

C is wrong. Nutrients that are absorbed by the root must be transported through vascular tissue.

Which statement describes the transport of nutrients in nonvascular plants?Nutrients are absorbed from the environment and pass from cell to cell.Nutrients are absorbed from the environment and pass through the vasculartissues.Nutrients are absorbed through the roots and pass from cell to cell.