Does the growth pattern in plants differ from that in animals? Do all the parts of plant grow indefinitely? If not, name the regions of plant, which can grow indefinitely.
The growth pattern in plants differs from that in animals.
Plants have parts that have the ability to divide all throughout life and grow which is absent in animals i.e. they do not have unlimited growth. Plants have this characteristic due to the presence of meristems at different locations of the plant which is a region of rapid cell division. So new cells keep on getting added while the old ones lose capacity to divide and constitutes the plant body.
No, all the parts of the plant does not grow indefinitely. Only the meristematic tissues have the ability to keep on dividing i.e. the meristems are the parts which grow indefinitely throughout the plant life.
