Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The undifferentiated plant tissue from which new cells are formed, as that at the tip of a stem or root.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Actively dividing cell-tissue; the unformed and growing cell-tissues found at the ends of young stems, leaves, and roots.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The plant
tissue composed oftotipotent cells that allows plant growth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The most important observation made from our experimental data is that the meristem is a highly plastic tissue, which undergoes substantial changes in domain organization and cell behavior in response to environmental and developmental cues.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Florian Geier et al. 2008
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The most important observation made from our experimental data is that the meristem is a highly plastic tissue, which undergoes substantial changes in domain organization and cell behavior in response to environmental and developmental cues.
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Telah diobservasi pada meristem tomat, expanding tissues, ripening fruit.
Hubungan Antara Dinding Sel dan Pemasakan Buah – Netsains.Com 2010
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Large differences exist, for example, in the rate at which tundra plants can respond to changes in weather and climate, due to differences in allocation to stems versus leaves or to secondary chemistry versus new growth [32], in the ability to add new meristems [33], and in the constraints on the amount of growth that can be achieved by a single meristem within a single year (i.e., determinate versus indeterminate growth).
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"Yes, but the key to understanding and manipulating plant form lies in unraveling the communication machinery that enables shoot apical meristem cells to continuously coordinate the processes of stem-cell proliferation and organ primordia initiation."
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Mercury program merger meridian meristem meritocracy
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Mendel, Gregor meristem metabolism metamorphosis microorganisms missing link mitochondrion mitochondrial Eve mitosis molecular biology mollusks
21. Life Sciences 2002
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If the pest can find no host 'it never develops a growing shoot (apical meristem), it never becomes photosynthetic, and it dies.
Chapter 23 1996
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Wood is a tissue which is formed under the bark of the trunk by the meristem, the cambium.
1. Wood Dieter Zemmrich 1993
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The superiority of the technique is warranted by the fact that perfectly healthy clones could be produced by the technique of meristem culture.
1. Household gardening projects in asia: past experience and future directions 1992
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