How many senses do plants have?

Question

We humans have 5 senses which are Skin, Eyes, Nose, Tongue & Ears.
What do Plants have?

Answer 1

Probably, it feels, but who cares it won't complain when being eaten

Answer 2

1

Answer 3

Plants don't exactly have senses. They might have protein receptors that can pick up chemical signals that will allow them to respond in some way, but they don't have the intricate nervous system that more advanced animals possess.

However, plants do have tropisms: examples...phototropism, thigmotropism, gravitropism

phototropism is the plants ability to grow toward light. Thigmotropism is the plants ability to grow through touch (like vines). Gravitropism is a plants ability to know up from down (a cool little mechanism found in the roots). Also, many plants respond to the amount of night vs day and this will effect whether or not their flowers will ever bloom. Too much sun for some plants, and no bloom.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Do Plants Have Senses

Answer 5

Skin, eyes, nose, tongue, and ears are not senses, they are bodily organs. Perhaps you meant touch, vision, smell, taste, and hearing.

Plants that contain chlorophyll have approximately 1 sense, which is "grow toward the Sun". Everything else is just genetically programmed, such as how to produce seeds and flowers.

Answer 6

None really. The Mythbusters did an experiment on this and things were pretty much busted.

They don't have central nervous systems like we do which is what controls our senses.

Answer 7

The closest things Plants have to senses are the tropisms. Phototropism, Thigmatropsim, gravitropism.

Answer 8

Via the photoreceptors and chemoreceptors.