Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305073951
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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To determine: How the growing plants get the materials necessary for increases in size.

Concept introduction: Plants are multicellular, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom plantae.  Plants are made up of cells like other organisms.. The growth of the plants involves an increase in the cell numbers by cell division and an increase in cell division. Plants exhibit natural variation in their structure and form.

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