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World Service,25 Jul 2001,12 mins

How do Plants Grow?

Growing Science

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While animals grow in a co-ordinated and proportional way, plants develop in restricted growth locations with very few cells at the shoot, root and root tip. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 2001.

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