BIOL 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Celery, Ground Tissue, Root Cap
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Tissue: collection of similar cells that perform a specialized task. Organ: collection of tissue that together perform a specialized task. Root (of non-vascular plants are rhizomes same type of cell) di erent/ adaptive features: Storage roots a. walking trees extending outward to extend base. E. serve to store carbohydrates to power pants for next yr. around freezing areas b. 1. plants need oxygen to break sugar to get resources. Strangling aerial roots a. when plants grow on top of other trees to get to the composition of light eventually kills other tree b. Buttress roots a. the plants will grow these; air out to reinforce the tree to not tip over. Non-vascular plants like moss look like they have leaves but are micro lms. 2: adaptive types of leave, tendrils, spines (on a cactus, storage leaves, they have nutrients in them. Plants grow di erently than animals in 3 main ways:
