Plants certainly cannot think, but they can communicate with each other- biochemically. Set one brownish banana among unripened fruits of any kind, and the banana would "tell" them that it's time to ripe! This occurs via volatile plant hormone - ethylene. Also, if one plant is wounded or infected, other plants from the neighborhood can enhance their resistance or "immunity" via some other plant hormones. Plants can also sense the presence of other plants growing nearby, because they can detect whether they are growing in sunlight or in shade (light filtered through leaves) by the action of a pigment phytochrome. Let alone carnivorous plants that "communicate" with their pray (insects), or shy mimosa (Mimosa pudica) that rapidly responds to touch my moving its leaves...
2006-09-05 21:26:11
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answered by srpkinja33 2
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each and each determination has advantages, and down-components. genuine flowers are plenty extra exciting to have interior the tank as they boost, reproduce, and supply the fish some thing to p.c.. at. Biologically, they eliminate some nitrogen from the equipment and bring oxygen for the fish. i understand some people who've tanks that are in simple terms thoroughly planted and have no fish through fact they appreciate the planted factor plenty. you could upload CO2, severe lighting fixtures, and ferts, and turn your tank right into a jungle in a count of weeks. There are some vast down components nevertheless. If suited care isn't in touch in the water, flowers can rot, which will nicely be poisonous to the fish. there is likewise rather some pruning with the fast growing to be flowers, which will nicely be a worry to a pair. As pronounced above, planted tank set united statesmight nicely be costly, yet once you persist with low mild flowers inclusive of java fern, you may get with the help of with the inventory aquarium kits. in case you do bypass planted, try java fern and java moss in the previous each and every thing, and make sure what you're procuring isn't meant for a terrarium. Plastic flowers are great through fact you could set them and forget approximately them. You p.c.. out what you like and that's extraordinarily plenty it. they don't do something to income/harm the chemistry of the tank, and don't require any artwork (different than the occasional rinse). maximum fish won't care in case you employ genuine or fake so it ultimately comes right down to what you like. to your daughter, i could recommend utilising fake flowers and upload in low maintenance genuine flowers through fact the tank matures (you've gotten the two). you may get an air pump, tubing, and an air stone for approximately $15-$20, which will upload a good number of oxygen to the water. you should purchase adorns with air stones equipped into them and that they are extraordinarily cool to boot. puppy save workers hardly understand what they are speaking approximately whilst it contains aquariums, so do exactly the analyze first and you'd be wonderful.
2016-11-24 23:55:27
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answered by ? 4
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Plants do not think. Plant do not communicate with one another. They act as a group.
2006-09-05 18:19:06
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answered by Robin C 4
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No brain, no thinking. Their plant to plant communication is done with pollen. No other communication, no talk.
2006-09-05 18:20:26
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answered by lcmcpa 7
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plants grow better in groups.
perhaps there is another form of communication we humans don't recognize.
2006-09-05 18:16:33
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answered by sparkloom 3
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Yes plants can think. Indian Scientist Dr. Jagadishchandra Bose invented a instrument named crescograph & did many experiments on plants.
The great biologist, who showed those plants, too can feel in their own way. He saved money:he bought a small laboratory and built his equipment; and scientists in Europe and America wondered at his discoveries. A true patriot and a great man.
Suppose there is a lush green plant and its leaves are a sparkling green in the shining sunlight. We feel like pulling out a leaf to feel it. But we do not think of what goes on inside the plant. May be, we feel that the plant does not suffer like us. But the plant does suffer. In fact the pulsation of the plant stops where the leaf was plucked. In a short time the pulsation again begins at the spot, but this time very slowly. And then it completely stops. That spot is as good as dead for the plant.
It was Jagadishchandra Bose, an eminent Indian scientist, who explained that plants also suffer pain like us. Though he wored in other fields of science, he is best know for his research into the life of plants.
He forwarded a theory for the ascent of sap in plants in 1927, his theory contributed to the vital theory of ascent of sap. According to his theory the pumping action of the living cells in the endodermis junction were responsible for the ascent of sap in plants.
He was skeptical about the the-then most popular theory in ascent of sap, the tension-cohesion theory of Dixon and Joly, first proposed in 1894. His skepticism on the same turned true when Canny proposed the most successful 'The CP theory' backed by strong experimental evidence. Canny experimentally demonstrated the sort of pumping in the living cells in the junction of the endodermis, which JC Bose demonstrated 60 years earlier.
His research in plant stimuli were pioneering, he showed with the help of his newly invented crescograph that plants responded to various stimuli as if they had nervous systems like that of animals. He therefore found a parallelism between animal and plant tissues.
His experiments showed that plants grow faster in pleasant music and its growth retards in noise or harsh sound. This was experimentally verified later on. His major contribution in the field of biophysics was the demonstration of the electrical nature of the conduction of various stimuli (wounds, chemical agents) in plants, which were earlier thought to be of chemical in nature. These claims were experimentally proved by *Wildon et al (Nature, 1992, 360, 62–65). He also studied for the first time action of microwaves in plant tissues and corresponding changes in the cell membrane potential, mechanism of effect of seasons in plants, effect of chemical inhibitor on plant stimuli, effect of temperature etc,. And all studies were pioneering. He claimed that plants can "feel pain, understand affection etc," from the analysis of the nature of variation of the cell membrane potential of plants, under different circumstances. According to him a plant treated with care and affection gives out a different vibration compared to a plant subjected to torture.
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937), physicist, plant physiologist, and founder of the Bose Research Institute in Calcutta. He was one of the first to find a link between botanical and physical sciences. His Crescograph could detect plant growth of one-millionth of a millimetre of a second. In 1899, he invented the Coherer, an early radio receiver that was the model for Marconi's wireless of 1901.
Dr. Bose expounded on the 'nervous mechanism' of plants - the ability of plants to recognize and react to the individual who has committed an act of violence (particularly toward a plant) in their 'presence'. He studied other plant topics, including photosynthesis.
2006-09-07 02:19:31
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answered by smalleyessharpviews 3
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Already asked this one.
2006-09-06 18:51:59
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answered by Kevin H. 3
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i can say with 100% certainty : YES
2006-09-06 05:56:18
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answered by ỉη ץ٥ڵ 5
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quess u'd have to b one to find out
2006-09-05 18:37:26
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answered by queenie 2
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may be or may not be. yet to discover it.
2006-09-06 01:18:36
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answered by loadstar 3
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