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Dictionary » S » Spongy Spongyspongy 1. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones. 2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. Spongy April. 3. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge. (Science: chemistry) Spongy lead, sponge lead. See Sponge. Spongy platinum. See Platinum. ![]()
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Results from our forumHydrenchyma... parenchyma cells, which makes sense since Nymphaea is a water lily of some sort. however, all the anatomical features I was able to identify were spongy and palisade mesophyll, along with some empty space that functions in gas storage and maybe floating. in what part of the leaf is the hydrenchyma ...
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The Fiber Disease... a very useful model of a self-organizing, self-assembling system for a material in nature." Electrically active and physically resilient, the spongy, porous gel can shrink or swell, bend, twist, stretch, or shear, then resume its normal shape. An affinity for charged particles, Mendelson says, ...
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Sun and shade chloroplast... chloroplasts in sun leaves concentrate on the palisade layer while chloroplasts in shade leaves are evenly distributed between the palisade and spongy mesophyll layers.. Chloroplasts in sun leaves tend to move away after taking their turns in the bright light. they find shade from others where ...
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plant organization & growthNumber 4 is correct and number 1 is incorrect because the photosynthetic mesophyll is made up of an upper palisde layer and a lower spongy layer
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plant organization & growthregarding plants what is incorrect? 1 the photosynthetic mesophyll is made up of an upper spongy layer and a lower palisde layer 2 the epidermis is covered by a waxy layer of cuticle that reduces water loss 3 gas exchange occurs through tiny openings in the leaf surface ...
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