Vascular plants, like trees and flowers, have special tubes called xylem that help them transport water from the roots up to their leaves. This allows them to grow taller because they can move a lot of water quickly and efficiently. Nonvascular plants, like mosses, don’t have these tubes, so they absorb water directly from their surroundings, mainly through their leaves and stems. Because of this, nonvascular plants usually stay smaller and closer to the ground since they can’t move water very far or fast.
The cells in vascular and nonvascular plants are both able to get water, but nonvascular plants have different methods than vascular plants. How do these differences affect the height of the plants? In three to five sentences, explain this and be sure to describe how each type of plant gets water to its cells (make it short and like a 7th grader wrote it)
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