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Plant Cells: The Building Blocks
Eukaryotes Source: Raven, Evert, and Eichhorn. 1986. Biology of Plants. 4 th  Ed. Worth Publishers, Inc.
Typical Plant Cell Parker. 1998. Introduction to Plant Science. Delmar Publishers. New York.
Image Source: Mariana Ruiz/public domain
Cell Wall http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/ plants/images/cellwallfigure1.jpg
Secondary Cell Wall www.puc.edu/Faculty/Gilbert_Muth/art0003.jpg
www.csupomona.edu/~srkoukol/bot124lab/labsupp/pear_stone_cells.jpg
Source: Raven, Evert, and Eichhorn. 1986. Biology of Plants. 4 th  Ed. Worth Publishers, Inc. Parker. 1998. Introduction to Plant Science. Delmar Publishers. New York.
Tissues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Types of Meristems ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Source: Raven, Evert, and Eichhorn. 1986. Biology of Plants. 4 th  Ed. Worth Publishers, Inc.
Permanent Tissues ,[object Object],[object Object]
Energy Relationship of Photosynthesis and Respiration Carbohydrate Respiration Photosynthesis CO  +  H O 2 2 2 O 1_2 LOW HIGH Energy 2H + 2H + 2 O 1_2
Source: Raven, Evert, and Eichhorn. 1986. Biology of Plants. 4 th  Ed. Worth Publishers, Inc. Source: Raven, Evert, and Eichhorn. 1986. Biology of Plants. 4 th  Ed. Worth Publishers, Inc.

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Plant Cells

Editor's Notes

  1. Cells and Seeds: Basics and Beginnings. Robert Hooke, an English physicist, was understandably excited when , in 1665, he wrote about having used a crude microscope to look at a slice of cork. Hooke was the first person to find that plants were actually constructed of tiny units which he named cells. The latin “cella” means a small room.