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meristem

a tissue in plants that consists of undifferentiated cells (meristematic cells) capable of cell division. Meristems give rise to various tissues and organs of a plant and are responsible for growth
Class type of: plant tissue Q207604

Facts

3 properties
Subclass of
plant tissue
Described by source
New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en meristem ar بارض ar الخلايا الإنشائية cs pletiva dělivá cs meristem cs dělivé pletivo cs meristém cs meristémy cs dělivá pletiva de Bildungsgewebe el μερίστωμα es celula meristematica es célula meristematica es célula meristemática es tejidos merimáticos es tejidos meristematicos es celula meristemática es tejido meristemático es tejido meristematico es procambium
🔖 Identifiers · 19
OpenAlex ID
C126021549, C176080148
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/9994
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
meristeme
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/meristem
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
meristemes
Freebase ID
/m/01h5fp
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
meristema
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0122901
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
meristem
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2205656
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
meristems
KBpedia ID
Meristem
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Lex ID
meristem
MeSH descriptor ID
D018519
MeSH tree code
A18.024.875.875, A18.024.937.500, A18.400.500
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
126021549, 176080148
Topic's main category
Category:Meristem
UMLS CUI
C1136059, C0242728
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
13151644-n

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Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Located in this place 1
Proplastid
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Subclass of 1
plant tissue
Subtypes 1
apicalmeristem
← Facet of 1
cambium
← FactGrid item ID 1
Leeswood
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meristem is a type of plant tissue[1].

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