Put one of these tissues under a microscope and you will find that it consists of a “honeycomb of small compartments or units”. These compartments are called “cells,” and the structure of all plant tissues is described as “cellular.” Wherever you may look in any plant, you will find these cells making up its tissues. The activity of any part or tissue of the plant, and consequently all of the activities of the plant as a whole, are but the combined and co-operating activities of the various individual cells of which the tissues are composed. “The living cell, therefore, is at the basis of all plant life.”
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