15. Both animals and plants grow. Why do we say that growth and differentiation in plants are open and not so in animals? Does this statement hold for sponges also?
15. Both animals and plants grow. Why do we say that growth and differentiation in plants are open and not so in animals? Does this statement hold for sponges also?

Solution:

Because the meristematic tissues of the meristems present in various locations of the plant body are an active site of cell division where growth is indefinite, the plant growth and differentiation of certain parts like the meristematic tissues of the meristems present in various locations of the plant body is an active site of cell division where growth is indefinite.