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Sugar Transport
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/17/2009
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True or false? Sugar transport is multidirectional.
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True
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What does sugar transport require?
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energy and living tissue (phloem)
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term for the place where sugar is produced
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source
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term for place where sugar is used or stored
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sink
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Where does the energy come from for sugar transport?
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Energy is produced by companion cells to phloem cells.
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Why can't phloem cells produce energy?
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They have no mitochondria.
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