3 cell types Flashcards
1
Q
what are the 3
A
parenchymA cellenchyma sclerenchyma
2
Q
parenchyma functions
A
1 store starch oils water 2 photosynethsis 3 fruit flesh 4 ability to divide whole life to important in healing& regeneration
3
Q
parenchyma
A
most common type of cell thin walls and large vacuoles fruit flesh

4
Q
collenchyma
A
thin or thick cell walls-allowing plant to grow and giving support -grow in strands (like celery) -no lignin-so stretchy and flexible -found in young tissues of leaves and shoots

5
Q
sclerenchyma
A
strongest -thick rigid cell walls (2 cell walls)’ -die when reach maturity, leaving cell walls - -found in fruit pits outer shell of nuts-gritty texture of pears
