root tips
Underground plant extremities
Root tips are the growing ends of plant roots, where cell division occurs most rapidly.
In biology education, root tips are commonly used for studying mitosis because their active growth provides abundant dividing cells: We examined onion root tips under the microscope.
The term appears in botany, horticulture, and laboratory contexts.
- radicleEmbryonic plant root
- meristemPlant growth tissue
- cell divisionParent splitting into offspring
- growthIncrease in size
- soilGround matter for planting
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