All cells of a plant are descendents of the ______ .
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Development is the sum of two processes: ______ and ______ .
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Growth is regarded as one of the most fundamental and ______ characteristics of a living being
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Growth can be defined as an ______ permanent increase in size of an organ or its parts or even of an individual cell.
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growth is accompanied by metabolic processes (both ______ and ______ ), that occur at the expense of energy. Therefore, for example, expansion of a leaf is growth
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Plant growth is unique because plants retain the capacity for ______ growth throughout their life
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Unlimited growth ability of the plants is due to the presence of meristems at certain locations in their body. The cells of such meristems have the capacity to divide and ______
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This form of growth wherein new cells are always being added to the plant body by the activity of the meristem is called the ______ form of growth.
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______ & ______ meristem are responsible for the primary growth of the plants and principally contribute to the elongation of the plants along their axis.
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In dicotyledonous plants and gymnosperms, the lateral meristems, vascular cambium and cork-cambium appear later in life. These are the meristems that cause the increase in the girth of the organs in which they are active. This is known as ______ of the plant
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Growth, at a ______ level, is principally a consequence of increase in the amount of protoplasm
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Growth is, therefore, measured by a variety of parameters some of which are: increase in ______ weight, dry weight, length, area, volume and cell number
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one single maize root apical meristem can give rise to more than 17,500 new cells per hour, whereas cells in a watermelon may increase in size by upto ______ times
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expresses growth as increase in size of the cell, While the growth of a ______ is measured in terms of its length
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An increase in surface area denotes the growth in a ______ leaf
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