Biology A-Level
Tracer experiments
What Tracer experiments means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Tracer experiments
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Plants supplied with radioactive 14CO2 incorporate 14C into sugars, which are tracked moving through the phloem using autoradiography.
Topics that use Tracer experiments
- Mass transport in plants (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- cohesion
- companion cells
- Hydrostatic pressure gradients
- Mass flow hypothesis
- Ringing experiments
- Transpiration
- adhesion to the wall
- sieve tube elements and sieve plates
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