enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ground substance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_substance

    Ground substance provides lubrication for collagen fibers. [2] The components of the ground substance vary depending on the tissue. Ground substance is primarily composed of water and large organic molecules, such as glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), proteoglycans, and glycoproteins. GAGs are polysaccharides that trap water, giving the ground ...

  3. Ground tissue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_tissue

    "The ground tissue of plants includes all tissues that are neither dermal nor vascular. It can be divided into three types based on the nature of the cell walls. This tissue system is present between the dermal tissue and forms the main bulk of the plant body. Parenchyma cells have thin primary walls and usually remain alive after they become ...

  4. Groundwater - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Water located beneath the ground surface An illustration showing groundwater in aquifers (in blue) (1, 5 and 6) below the water table (4), and three different wells (7, 8 and 9) dug to reach it. Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in ...

  5. Fluid compartments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_compartments

    The human body and even its individual body fluids may be conceptually divided into various fluid compartments, which, although not literally anatomic compartments, do represent a real division in terms of how portions of the body's water, solutes, and suspended elements are segregated. The two main fluid compartments are the intracellular and ...

  6. Plant stem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_stem

    Dermal tissue covers the outer surface of the stem and usually functions to protect the stem tissue, and control gas exchange. [6] The predominant cells of dermal tissue are epidermal cells. [6] Ground tissue usually consists mainly of parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma cells, and they surround vascular tissue. Ground tissue is important ...

  7. Vascular tissue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular_tissue

    Vascular tissue is a complex conducting tissue, formed of more than one cell type, found in vascular plants. The primary components of vascular tissue are the xylem and phloem. These two tissues transport fluid and nutrients internally. There are also two meristems associated with vascular tissue: the vascular cambium and the cork cambium.

  8. Guard cell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_cell

    Water stress (drought and salt stress) is one of the major environmental problems causing severe losses in agriculture and in nature. Drought tolerance of plants is mediated by several mechanisms that work together, including stabilizing and protecting the plant from damage caused by desiccation and also controlling how much water plants lose through the stomatal pores during drought.

  9. Endosperm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosperm

    The processed grain has a lower quality of nutrition. Endosperm thus has an important role within the human diet worldwide. The aleurone is the outer layer of endosperm cells, present in all small grains and retained in many dicots with transient endosperm. The cereal aleurone functions for both storage and digestion.