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... seed , movements of its parts . Spontaneous movement . Young plants move much . Parts of the living thing observed . Quantity of growth in each part - the bent axis of a seedling . Seedling grown in darkness . Action of light , it ...
... seed , movements of its parts . Spontaneous movement . Young plants move much . Parts of the living thing observed . Quantity of growth in each part - the bent axis of a seedling . Seedling grown in darkness . Action of light , it ...
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... seed be placed on damp moss and kept in A growing the dark at a sufficient temperature , the access of air seed , its being free , it soon begins to sprout . The seed swells , ments . growth commences , and protrusion of the radicle ...
... seed be placed on damp moss and kept in A growing the dark at a sufficient temperature , the access of air seed , its being free , it soon begins to sprout . The seed swells , ments . growth commences , and protrusion of the radicle ...
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... seed , it is capable of growth when placed in moist ground at a sufficient temperature . The botanists call the potato a tuber because it has been shewn that it is a much thickened underground stem or branch , the so- called ' eyes ' of ...
... seed , it is capable of growth when placed in moist ground at a sufficient temperature . The botanists call the potato a tuber because it has been shewn that it is a much thickened underground stem or branch , the so- called ' eyes ' of ...
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... seed . These two last are examples of altered capacity for growth . The study of Nature may guide us in all things , in observing and in thinking : in such work we must con- stantly make analogies and generalisations . Certain ...
... seed . These two last are examples of altered capacity for growth . The study of Nature may guide us in all things , in observing and in thinking : in such work we must con- stantly make analogies and generalisations . Certain ...
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... seeds , the turnip , the carrot and potato , the convolvulus and the ivy , and made some generalisations as to Nature's methods of action in living things . What does the potato shew us as to what to observe in a child's body or his ...
... seeds , the turnip , the carrot and potato , the convolvulus and the ivy , and made some generalisations as to Nature's methods of action in living things . What does the potato shew us as to what to observe in a child's body or his ...
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