Question
If you uproot a plant from the soil, its leaves soon wilt.
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Answer
If a plant is uprooted, the leaves continue losing water by transpiration, but there is no more water absorbed the roots. This does not allow the compensation for the loss of water by transpiration; hence the leaves of the uprooted plant wilt soon
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