Movement into and out of cells — practice question

The diagram illustrates a transverse section through the root of a dicotyledonous plant. Which statement gives the correct description of how water and solutes move through this root?

• AA layer of suberin causes water and solutes to move from the apoplast pathway into the symplast pathway.
• BA layer of suberin causes water and solutes to move from the symplast pathway into the apoplast pathway.
• CThe tonoplast causes water and solutes to move from the symplast pathway into the apoplast pathway.
• DThe tonoplast causes water and solutes to move from the apoplast pathway into the symplast pathway.