Q: What is the specialized tissue that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant and allows these plants to grow taller?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

For these plants, the name says it all. Vascular seedless plants have vascular tissue but do not have seeds. Remember that vascular tissue is specialized tissue that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The development of vascular tissue allowed these plants to grow much taller than nonvascular plants, forming ancient swamp forests. Most of these large vascular seedless plants are now extinct, but their smaller relatives still remain. Vascular tissue includes xylem, which transports water from the roots to the rest of the plant; and phloem, which transports sugars and nutrients from the leaves throughout the plant.

 Choices:

- blood vessels

- dioxide tissue

- fiber tissue

- vascular tissue


A:
vascular tissue