Improvement in food resources

# Tissues

### Group of cells having common origin working together to perform a particular function.

# Histology

## Study of Tissue

# Meristematic Tissues

### Plant tissue that has the ability to divide throughout the life.

# Apical Meristem

### Meristematic tissue present at the tips of the shoot/stem or roots.

# Shoot Apical Meristem

### Apical meristem present at the tips of the shoot/stem that helps to increase the length.

# Root Apical Meristem

### Apical meristem present at the tips of the roots that helps to increase the length.

# Intercalary Meristem

### Meristematic tissue present near the node or at the base of the internode, found in grasses.

# Lateral Meristem

### Meristematic tissue that helps to increase the thickness/girth/width of the stem or root.

## Characteristics of Meristematic Tissues

### living cells, dense protoplasm, thin cell walls, large nuclei, absence of vacuoles, tight cell packing, high metabolic activity, active cell division.

# Animal Tissues

### Tissues in animals, characterized by living cells and targeted organization for high mobility.