Okay I see the answer to the clockwise and counter clockwise question with the drains and water direction. What I have noticed is vines growing on trees going counter clockwise. Does that have anything to do with which hemisphere you are in- do vines grow clockwise in the Southern hemisphere?
2007-06-03 14:52:42 · 2 answers · asked by ditdit 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
nope...thats a genetic thing and a hormonal thing.
some plants are genetically only capable of climbing in a clockwise or anticlockwise position.....I have a feeling one is much more dominant over the other, but I can't remember which.
Also plants do something called Thigmotropism (or reaction or touch) when a plant tendral "touchs" something it causes a hormals reaction, which causes hormones to elongate cells on the opposite side to the "touch" and causes the plant to bend....
2007-06-03 17:35:23 · answer #1 · answered by mareeclara 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the Coriolis effect applies to plants. They grow towards the light. But I could be wrong. It happens.
2007-06-03 22:04:11 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋