BiologyCode 9700
Control and coordination in plants
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- describe how the Venus fly trap gives a rapid response when hairs on the lobes of its modified leaves receive stimulation, and explain how the trap's closure is brought about
- explain the part auxin plays in elongation growth, namely by encouraging proton pumping which acidifies cell walls
- describe gibberellin's function in barley seed germination (see 16.3.4)