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  2. Botanical illustration - Wikipedia

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    The plants or useful parts of plants are illustrated. Cheng Yaotian (1736-1796) observed plants in nature and cultivated them. The drawings accompanying his text resemble herbarium specimens, emphasizing flower and fruit details. Wu Qijun (1789-1847)'s Illustrated Catalogues of Plants (1848) also relied on direct observation of plants in nature.

  3. William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

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    A watercolour drawing of the zebra dove or barred ground dove (Geopelia striata; known in Malay as the burung merbuk) perched on a purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana; Malay buah manggis) branch. It is one of 477 natural history drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore commissioned by William Farquhar.

  4. Phototropism - Wikipedia

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    Phototropism in plants such as Arabidopsis thaliana is directed by blue light receptors called phototropins. [13] Other photosensitive receptors in plants include phytochromes that sense red light [14] and cryptochromes that sense blue light. [15] Different organs of the plant may exhibit different phototropic reactions to different wavelengths ...

  5. Tropism - Wikipedia

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    Heliotropism: the diurnal motion or seasonal motion of plant parts in response to the direction of the Sun, (e.g. the sunflower) Apheliotropism: negative heliotropism Hydrotropism : movement or growth in response to water ; in plants, the root cap senses differences in water moisture in the soil, and signals cellular changes that cause the root ...

  6. Milo (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Milo is a British comedy animated preschool television series that first aired on Channel 5's Milkshake! block on 10 May 2021 in the United Kingdom. [1]The series, produced by Fourth Wall Animation and distributed by Planeta Junior, [2] was commissioned in May 2021 by the British Film Institute's Young Audiences Content Fund.

  7. Phototaxis - Wikipedia

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    The second type of phototaxis is true phototaxis, which is a directed movement up a gradient to an increasing amount of light. This is analogous to positive chemotaxis except that the attractant is light rather than a chemical. Phototactic responses are observed in many organisms such as Serratia marcescens, Tetrahymena, and Euglena. Each ...

  8. Hydrotropism - Wikipedia

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    Hydrotropism (hydro- "water"; tropism "involuntary orientation by an organism, that involves turning or curving as a positive or negative response to a stimulus") [1] is a plant's growth response in which the direction of growth is determined by a stimulus or gradient in water concentration. A common example is a plant root growing in humid air ...

  9. Elizabeth Blackwell (illustrator) - Wikipedia

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    Pages of written descriptions for each plant were added that included a physical description, growth habit, where and when the plant could be located, how each part could be used, and the other names for the plant provided by Blackwell’s husband. The task of creating A Curious Herbal was immense and took a number of years to complete.