BIOL 2080 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cuticle, Flowering Plant, Tracheid

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Meristems, or meristematic tissue: permanent regions of growth, cells actively divide. As the cells mature, they assume many different shapes and sizes, each related to the cell"s ultimate function. Apical meristems are meristematic tissues found at, or near, the tips of roots and shoots, which increase in length as the apical meristems produce new cells: primary growth. Three primary meristems, as well as embryo leaves and buds, develop from apical meristems. Primary meristems: protoderm, ground meristem, procambium. Vascular cambium and cork cambium are lateral meristems: produce tissues that increase the girth of roots and stems. Vascular cambium produces secondary tissues that function primarily in support and conduction. Vascular cambium extends throughout the length of the roots and stems: in the form of a thin cylinder of mostly brick-shaped cells. The tissues it produces are responsible for most of the increase in girth.

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