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Abhishek Anand

Class 11th
Biology
2 years ago

State the location and function of different types of meristem.

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Meristems are specialized areas of plant growth. The meristems mark the areas wherein energetic mobileular department and fast department of cells take place. Meristems are of 3 kinds relying on their location. Apical meristem It is gift at the basis apex and the shoot apex. The shoot apical meristem is gift on the tip of the shoots and its lively department consequences withinside the elongation of the stem and formation of recent leaves. The root apical meristem facilitates in root elongation. Intercalary meristem It is gift among the hundreds of mature tissues gift on the bases of the leaves of grasses. It allows withinside the regeneration of grasses when they were grazed via way of means of herbivores. Since the intercalary meristem and the apical meristem seem early in a plant's life, they represent the number one meristem. Lateral meristem It seems withinside the mature tissues of roots and shoots. It is referred to as the secondary meristem because it seems later in a plant's life. It allows in including secondary tissues to the plant frame and in growing the girth of plants. Examples include fascicular cambium, interfascicular cambium, and cork cambium

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