What is a tissue? What are some identifying features of meristematic tissue? Relative size of
the cells: Relative size of the nucleus: Size of the vacuoles:
Solution
4. when a group of cells are morphologically identical and perform the same function in a well-
coordinated manner then they are termed as a tissue e.g, skin is a tissue.
5.Meristematic tissue.The cells which are naive or undifferentiated and have the capacity to
transform into any structure are called meristematic tissue.They are like our stem cells. This type
of tissue is found more in the growing young plants and once the plant has grown it will be
restricted to certain places like apical tip and root tips.
a) Meristematic cells are relatively smaller in size as they continuously divide to produce new
cells without enough time being spent in the differentiation or the maturation of cells.
b)The size of the nucleus is quite large as the DNA is replicated all the time and the ratio of
nucleus to the cytoplasm is also less.
c)vacuoles are mostly absent or even if they are present they are quite small.In plants, unlike
animals, they are mainly used as storage cabins for the metabolites but in the case of
meristematic tissue there is only one function i.e division and other than that there are no other
metabolic processes occurring and their presence also would cause issues in the rapid cell
division.
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1. What is a tissue? What are some identifying features of meristematic tissue? Relative size of
the cells: Relative size of the nucleus: Size of the vacuoles:
Solution
4. when a group of cells are morphologically identical and perform the same function in a well-
coordinated manner then they are termed as a tissue e.g, skin is a tissue.
5.Meristematic tissue.The cells which are naive or undifferentiated and have the capacity to
transform into any structure are called meristematic tissue.They are like our stem cells. This type
of tissue is found more in the growing young plants and once the plant has grown it will be
restricted to certain places like apical tip and root tips.
a) Meristematic cells are relatively smaller in size as they continuously divide to produce new
cells without enough time being spent in the differentiation or the maturation of cells.
b)The size of the nucleus is quite large as the DNA is replicated all the time and the ratio of
nucleus to the cytoplasm is also less.
c)vacuoles are mostly absent or even if they are present they are quite small.In plants, unlike
animals, they are mainly used as storage cabins for the metabolites but in the case of
meristematic tissue there is only one function i.e division and other than that there are no other
metabolic processes occurring and their presence also would cause issues in the rapid cell
division
