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Epidermal cells

Epidermal cell

1. Cell of epidermis in animals.

2. Plant cell on the surface of a leaf or other young plant tissue, where bark is absent. The exposed surface is covered with a layer of cutin.


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Ras Pathway

... key components of the Ras pathway interact with each other. (a) When epidermal growth factor (EGF) is added to epithelial cells, the Ras and Raf proteins are both activated. From this observation by itself, what conclusion ...

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by biologybuzz
Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:36 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Ras Pathway
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Views: 395

Ras pathway

1)When epidermal growth factor is added to epithelial cells, the Ras and Raf proteins are both acitivated. From this observation by itself, what conclusion can you draw ...

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by jello22
Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:54 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Ras pathway
Replies: 1
Views: 205

help on plant cells urgently please!!!!!!

well my plant physiology is a bit rusty, but I am sure that guard cells and root hair cells develop from epidermal cells (of leaf and root respectively). Can't help on palisade cell though...

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by MrMistery
Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:58 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: help on plant cells urgently please!!!!!!
Replies: 1
Views: 437

Scars

Most well-differentiated cells in human body have poor to non-existent regeneration capabilities. Whilst epidermal cells (top layer of the skin) are exceptions to this rule and have very good cell division rates ...

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by biohazard
Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:56 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: Scars
Replies: 2
Views: 709

Re: GRASS...

... question properly, I wanted to know in terms of cellular activity e.g. epidermal and corticle cells why grass needs to be cut after every few days in the summer and less frequantly in the ...

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by pinkypig
Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:00 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: GRASS...
Replies: 5
Views: 1353
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