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  2. Guard cell - Wikipedia

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    Guard cells have cell walls of varying thickness(its inner region, adjacent to the stomatal pore is thicker and highly cutinized [7]) and differently oriented cellulose microfibers, causing them to bend outward when they are turgid, which in turn, causes stomata to open. Stomata close when there is an osmotic loss of water, occurring from the ...

  3. Evolutionary history of plants - Wikipedia

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    A second mechanism, CAM photosynthesis, temporally separates photosynthesis from the action of RuBisCO. RuBisCO only operates during the day, when stomata are sealed and CO 2 is provided by the breakdown of the chemical malate. More CO 2 is then harvested from the atmosphere when stomata open, during the cool, moist nights, reducing water loss.

  4. Mitosis - Wikipedia

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    Mitosis occurs only in eukaryotic cells and varies between organisms. [9] For example, animal cells generally undergo an open mitosis, where the nuclear envelope breaks down before the chromosomes separate, whereas fungal cells generally undergo a closed mitosis, where chromosomes divide within an intact cell nucleus.

  5. Stoma - Wikipedia

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    Stoma in a tomato leaf shown via colorized scanning electron microscope image A stoma in horizontal cross section The underside of a leaf. In this species (Tradescantia zebrina) the guard cells of the stomata are green because they contain chlorophyll while the epidermal cells are chlorophyll-free and contain red pigments.

  6. File:Stoma Opening Closing.svg - Wikipedia

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    1-Epidermal cell 2-Guard cell 3-Stoma 4-K+ ions 5-Water 6-Vacuole a. Open stoma: stomata are the small pores in the epidermis of leaves. They are bordered by guard cells. The stomata open when the turgor pressure increases in the guard cells, causing the cells to buckle outward. This happens when water flows into the guard cells.

  7. Cell division - Wikipedia

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    The cell cycle in eukaryotes: I = Interphase, M = Mitosis, G 0 = Gap 0, G 1 = Gap 1, G 2 = Gap 2, S = Synthesis, G 3 = Gap 3. Cell division is the process by which a parent cell divides into two daughter cells. [1] Cell division usually occurs as part of a larger cell cycle in which the cell

  8. Chromosome segregation - Wikipedia

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    Mitosis divides the chromosomes in a cell nucleus.. During mitosis chromosome segregation occurs routinely as a step in cell division (see mitosis diagram). As indicated in the mitosis diagram, mitosis is preceded by a round of DNA replication, so that each chromosome forms two copies called chromatids.

  9. Evolution of photosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    More CO 2 is then harvested from the atmosphere when stomata open, during the cool, moist nights, reducing water loss. [citation needed] CAM has evolved convergently many times. [32] It occurs in 16,000 species (about 7% of plants), belonging to over 300 genera and around 40 families, but this is thought to be a considerable underestimate. [33]