Related Words

Apical Meristem: A meristem (embryonic tissue) at the tip of a shoot or root that is responsible for increasing the plants length.

Primary Meristems: The apical meristems on the shoot and root apices in plants that produce plant primary tissues.

Meristematic Tissue: Embryonic tissue located at the tips of stems and roots and occasionally along their entire length; can divide to produce new cells; one of the four main tissue systems in plants.

Periapical: The area that surrounds the root tip of a tooth.

Secondary (Lateral) Meristems: Plant meristems that produce secondary growth from a cambium.

Root Cap: Structure that covers and protects the apical meristem in plant roots. Cells forming a protective series of layers over the root meristem.

Primary Body: Those parts of a plant produced by the shoot and root apical meristems.

Primary Growth: Cells produced by an apical meristem. The growth a plant by the actions of apical meristems on the shoot and root apices in producing plant primary tisues.

Leaf Primordia: Young leaves, recently formed by the shoot apical meristem, located at the tip of a shoot.