9700/13 Biology May Jun 2013 Online Test | Cambridge AS and A Level MCQ
Some plant species can take up heavy metal contaminants that are dissolved in soil water and then transport them within the plant. Within plant cells, the heavy metals accumulate mainly in the vacuole.
Which are valid suggestions about the transport and accumulation of heavy metals?
1 After initial entry into the root, some of the heavy metals can pass through the tonoplast to be stored in the vacuole of cortical cells.
2 The heavy…