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This massive ancient forest is actually the world's largest living thing by mass. Meet Pando, thought to be the world's largest living thing by mass. It's a forest, but all of its 47,000 aspen trees come from a single root system spread over 106 acres in Utah, making it genetically one individual.

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Roots are very important for the plant because they suck the water and nutrients up out of the soil and into the plant. But the roots are not only good for the plant, they are good for soil. When it rains, the roots hold the soil in place so it is not washed away. When soil gets washed away it is called erosion.

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Aerial roots are roots that are above ground. Different plants have grown them.

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Is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

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A thick and fleshy root like a tuber but without buds, as in the dahlia.

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Some roots, called adventitious roots, arise from an organ other than the root—usually a stem, sometimes a leaf.

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prop root Any of the modified roots that arise from the stem of certain plants and provide extra support.

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1. Absorption of water and inorganic nutrients

2. Anchoring of the plant body to the ground, and supporting it

3. Storage of food and nutrients,

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a straight tapering root growing vertically downward and forming the center from which subsidiary rootlets spring.

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consisting of or characterized by fibers.