Understanding Plant Growth
Q1: Define growth.
Answer: Growth in an organism consists of a permanent and more or less irreversible increase in size, commonly accompanied by an increase in dry mass and amount of cytoplasm.
Q2: Define development.
Answer: The coordination of growth and differentiation of a single cell into multicellular tissues and organs is called development.
Q3: How the growth of living beings is different from non-living?
Answer: Growth in living beings is intrinsic or internal, in contrast to extrinsic growth observed in non-living objects.
Q4: How is plant growth different from animal growth?
Answer: Plant growth is generally indeterminate, i.e., continued throughout life while animal growth is non-continuous i.e. after a certain age, the ageing starts leading to death. In plants, the growth is diffused and localised while animal growth is uniform.
Q5: How plant growth is categorised?