In order to stay healthy and fresh, plants like every other living organism require certain substances. One of those substances is WATER, which the plant gets by absorption via the root hairs. The water circulates throughout the plant with the aid of a water-conducting vascular tissue called XYLEM. Without the xylem, water will not be transported throughout the plant.
The xylem tissue helps provide structural support to the plant as it helps the plant cell to be turgid. A non-functional xylem means the conduction of water is impossible, hence causing the plant cells to become flaccid and lose strength; a process called wiltering.
Lithospheric plates are part of a planetary scale thermal convection system. The energy source for plate tectonics is Earth's internal heat while the forces moving the plates are the “ridge push” and “slab pull” gravity forces
Elephants, who are important grazers, are instrumental in transforming woodlands into grasslands. This has a tremendous impact on other species that depend on the grass for their survival. The significance of the elephant in this example is B. keystone species.
Operons afford the organism the opportunity to
simultaneously regulate transcription of multiple genes, whose products are
active in the same process. Operons lead to the synthesis of groups of functionally
related enzymes, usually from a single mRNA transcript hence makes regulation of
the genes highly efficient.
