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Video showing how roots take up substances from the soil via osmosis, diffusion,...
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Two types of root systems: (left) the fibrous roots of grass and (right) the fleshy...
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Banyan tree (Ficus species) with aerial roots descending from branches to...
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Pneumatophores of the black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) encrusted with...
Thomas Eisner
The roots of an Austrian winter pea plant (Pisum sativum) with nodules harbouring...
John Kaprielian, The National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers
The shoot apical meristem of Hypericum uralum (left) appears at the topmost...
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Cross section of a typical root, showing the primary xylem and the primary phloem...
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The tops of the orange taproots of carrots (Daucus carota) emerging from...
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Growth regions of a tree(A) Longitudinal...
From (A) W.W. Robbins and T.E. Weier, Botany, an Introduction to Plant Science,; © 1950 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (B,D) Biological Science, an Inquiry into Life,; 2nd ed. (1968); Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., New York; by permission of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study; (C) E.W. Sinnott, Botany: Principles and Problems, 4th ed., copyright 1946; used with permission of McGraw-Hill Book Co.
(Right) The roots of an Austrian winter pea plant (Pisum sativum) with nodules...
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Depth to lime accumulation in relation to annual rainfall. Lime (CaCO3)...
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Structure of a root. The apical meristem is an area of actively dividing cells that...
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