Given below are two statements: Statement I: Water always flows from a cell having less negative potential to cell having more negative potential. Statement II: Difference between water potential of adjacent cells decides the movement of water through plasmodesmata across the cells in plants. In the light of above statements choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

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Statement I is correct because water always moves from a region of higher water potential to a region of lower water potential. Since the water potential of plant cells is negative, a higher water potential corresponds to a less negative value, and a lower water potential corresponds to a more negative value. Thus, water flows from a cell with a less negative water potential to a cell with a more negative water potential. Statement II is correct because the movement of water between adjacent cells, including the sy