Which statement about the route followed by a water molecule as it moves from the soil into the xylem is correct?
- AA water molecule in a cortex cell that takes the symplast pathway must enter the next cortex cell by passing between two adjacent phospholipid molecules in a cell surface membrane.
- BA water molecule can pass into xylem vessels either through pits or through the cell wall of the xylem vessel elements by osmosis.
- CA water molecule would pass into the cytoplasm of the endodermal cell if it always takes the apoplast pathway all the way to the xylem.
- DA water molecule that has left the endodermal cells can travel by either the apoplast pathway or symplast pathway.