Plant responses
- Created by: Daisy Fletcher-Cooney
- Created on: 24-05-15 17:41
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- Plant responses
- Shoots grow:-towards light-against gravity
- Roots grow:-towards moisture-in the direction of gravity
- Plants respond to changes in light, moisture and gravity by changing how they grow
- Growth in response to light is called PHOTOTROPISM
- Growth in response to gravity is called GRAVITROPISM
- Gravitropism is sometimes called geotropism. You can use either word in the exam
- Plant hormones
- AUXIN is the plant hormone that controls phototropism and gravitropism
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