While the transports dissolved organic nutrition molecules, such as sugars, from the leaves after photosynthesis, the transports water and dissolved minerals from the soil to the shoots and leaves.

A. tracheids; vessel elements
B. phloem; xylem
C. ground tissue; dermal tissue
D. wood; meristem
E. xylem; phloem


B. phloem; xylem

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