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Cork. The outer part of the bark is protected by layers of dead cork cells impregnated with suberin. Suberin is waxy and cuts down water loss from the stem.
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bark The outer layer of the stems of woody plants; composed of an outer layer of dead cells (cork) and an inner layer of phloem. PICTURE ...
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All tissues external to the vascular cambium in a plant growing in thickness, consisting of phloem, phelloderm, cork cambium, and cork.
Barr body ...
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bark Those portions of a woody plant stem or trunk exterior to the vascular cambium.
barnacles Crustaceans that live attached to surfaces and are typically enclosed by heavy calcareous plates.
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bark: the structure of vascular plants formed between the phloem and the cork.
bases: compounds that attract hydrogen atoms when placed in water.
basophils: the white blood cells that function in allergic responses.
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bark
The living tissue outside the vascular cambium in a woody stem. It is composed of phloem tissues, which occur as living inner and dead outer zones.
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inner bark. In older trees, the living part of the bark, the phloem.
inoculum. Any part or stage of a pathogen, such as spores or virus particles, that can infect a host.
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Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada.
Holy Communion. See Eucharist.
Holy family (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ, his parents, and others of his family are represented.
Holy Father, a title of the pope.
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Because phloem tubes sit on the outside of the xylem in most plants, a tree or other plant can be effectively killed by stripping away the bark in a ring on the trunk or stem.
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Sometimes they have a corky bark or semisucculent trunk covered with smooth resinous bark, both being fire resistant. A fire leaves scorched earth covered with a fine layer of powdery black ash in its wake.
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A population has, for example, thicker fur, rougher bark, longer ears, or larger seeds than another population, and although this characteristic may vary within each population, the two do not grade into one another, ...
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As a result light moths were favored because they were hard to see on the bark of trees whereas the dark moths were easy to see; birds ate the dark moths.
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[L. cortex - outer shell, bark]. The outermost layer of an organ or the outer, less fluid cytoplasm of an egg.
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In horticulture artificial propagation by insertion of a bud within the bark of another plant.
Related Terms: Bud
Rudimentary shoot of flower; a gemma.
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the growing meristematic tissue from which the secondary phloem and xylem tissues arise in roots and stems; located between wood and bark
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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I did not compute the weight of the fallen leaves of the four autumns. Finally, I dried the soil in the vessel again, and the same 200 pounds were found, less about 2 ounces. Therefore 169 pounds of wood, bark, and root had arisen from water only." ...
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