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Q.Plants have no circulatory system. Then how do cells manage intercellular transport?

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Step 1. Unlike animals, plants have no heart or vessels to actively pump fluid between cells, so intercellular transport instead relies on direct cell-to-cell connections.

Step 2. Plasmodesmata are cytoplasmic bridges that run through small pores in the primary cell wall and middle lamella, physically linking the cytoplasm of one cell to that of its neighbour.

Step 3. Through these bridges, water, ions, small molecules and signalling substances can pass directly from cell to cell, letting the tissue as a whole exchange and distribute materials even without a pumping circulatory system. …

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