[IB Plant Science: Reviews]

25. The type of vascular tissue found in the vascular bundles of plants that is shown below is phloem. Phloem transports sucrose, amino acids, hormones and other biochemical molecules in a solution known as sap.

Phloem can be identified by the narrow, central sieve tube cells which have perforations in the cell walls at each end through which the "sap" flows.

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