Cortex

Real World Example

Imagine you're trying to carry groceries from your car to your kitchen, but it's raining, and you need to keep everything dry. Just like you shield and transport your groceries from the wetness outside to the dryness inside, the cortex in plants acts as a protective layer under the epidermis, ensuring water and minerals are efficiently transported to where they're needed. In this analogy, your car is like the roots of the plant (where water and minerals are collected), the groceries are the nutrients, the cortex is you transporting these groceries, and the kitchen is the inner parts of the plant that require these nutrients.