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Beakman explains how plants take up water through the xylem. To demonstrate this, he splits the stem of a white flower in half and puts each half into a different jar of colored water. He also puts a stick of celery in one of the jars. The next day, you can see the white flower is now two different colors and if you split the celery, you can see the xylem because it's now colored.
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Key Words: Xylem, Stomata, Chlorophyll, Chloroplast, Thylakoid, Photoexcitation, Photosystem II, Electron Transport Chain, Cytochrome Complex, ATP