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    The epidermis (from the Greek ἐπιδερμίς, meaning "over-skin") is a single layer of cells that covers the leaves, flowers, roots and stems of plants. It...
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  • vertebrate animal. Epidermis may also refer to: Epidermis (botany), the outermost cell layer of plants Epidermis (zoology), the sheet of cells that covers the...
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    lateral meristem. The periderm replaces the epidermis, and acts as a protective covering like the epidermis. Mature phellem cells have suberin in their...
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    In botany, a cortex is an outer layer of a stem or root in a vascular plant, lying below the epidermis but outside of the vascular bundles. The cortex...
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    Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant...
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    The outside of the stem is covered with an epidermis, which is covered by a waterproof cuticle. The epidermis also may contain stomata for gas exchange...
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    Vascular tissue – bark (botany) – Casparian strip – turgor pressure – xylem – phloem – transpiration – wood – trunk (botany) Plant development tropism...
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  • Eukaryote Alga Animal Fungus Plant Protist Virus Plant form and function Epidermis (botany) Flower Ground tissue Leaf Phloem Plant stem Root Shoot Vascular plant...
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  • tissues Vascular tissue, a complex tissue found in vascular plants Epidermis (botany), the outer single-layered group of cells covering a plant This disambiguation...
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    Stoma (redirect from Stoma (botany))
    In botany, a stoma (pl.: stomata, from Greek στόμα, "mouth"), also called a stomate (pl.: stomates), is a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems...
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  • botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well...
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    Leaf (redirect from Leaves (botany))
    epidermis than on the upper epidermis, and is generally thicker on leaves from dry climates as compared with those from wet climates. The epidermis serves...
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  • Eukaryote Alga Animal Fungus Plant Protist Virus Plant form and function Epidermis (botany) Flower Ground tissue Leaf Phloem Plant stem Root Shoot Vascular plant...
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    Plant cell (redirect from Cell (botany))
    composed mainly of parenchyma cells. Some parenchyma cells, as in the epidermis, are specialized for light penetration and focusing or regulation of gas...
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    cells of the leaf epidermis are regarded as specialised parenchymal cells, but the modern preference has long been to classify the epidermis as plant dermal...
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    Seed (redirect from Testa (botany))
    In botany, a seed is a plant embryo and food reserve enclosed in a protective outer covering called a seed coat (testa). More generally, the term "seed"...
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    inside, like the petiole or a stipule), and prickles are derived from epidermis tissue (so that they can be found anywhere on the plant and do not have...
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    Theca (section Botany)
    opens at the stomium. The outer cells of the theca form the epidermis. Below the epidermis, the somatic cells form the tapetum. These support the development...
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    sclereid cell is known as an idioblast. Sclereids are typically found in the epidermis, ground tissue, and vascular tissue. The term "sclereid" was introduced...
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    Cork cambium (redirect from Cork (botany))
    cambiums) is a tissue found in many vascular plants as a part of the epidermis. It is one of the many layers of bark, between the cork and primary phloem...
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  • Cuticle (section Botany)
    for the epidermis, the outer layer of skin. In zoology, the invertebrate cuticle or cuticula is a multi-layered structure outside the epidermis of many...
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    Nectar (redirect from Nectar (botany))
    thick domed or papillate epidermis and dense cytoplasm. Platanthera bifolia produces a nocturnal scent from the labellum epidermis. Ophrys labella have dome-shaped...
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  • that for the new combination are given (the former in parentheses). In botany, it is customary (though not obligatory) to abbreviate author names according...
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    Rose (section Botany)
    commonly called "thorns", are technically prickles, outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem), unlike true thorns, which are...
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    Special Reference to the Tapetal Cell Wall.Furness & Rudall 2001 Annals of Botany, Volume 72, Issue 6, December 1993, Pages 595–605 Furness & Rudall 2001...
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    categorized broadly into three tissue systems: the epidermis, the ground tissue, and the vascular tissue. Epidermis – Cells forming the outer surface of the leaves...
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    to develop to produce two to four vacuolated cells at the level of the epidermis, the stalk cell with an almost completely cutinized wall, and at least...
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    of water that passes from inside a body (animal or plant) through the epidermis (that is, either the epidermal layer of animal skin or the epidermal layer...
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    of stomata on the upper epidermis of its leaves, unlike most other plants which concentrate their stomata on the lower epidermis, underneath the leaf. The...
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    Onion epidermal cell (category Botany stubs)
    These large cells from the epidermis of a red onion are naturally pigmented....
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