The simplest plants, such as the green algae growing in stagnant water or on the bark of trees, are mere round cells. The higher plants increase their surface by putting out leaves and roots. Comparative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to increase surface in proportion to volume.


In: James R. Newman (ed.), The World of Mathematics (Volume 2)

J. B. S. Haldane Quotes

The simplest plants, such as the green algae growing in stagnant water or on the bark of trees, are mere round cells. The higher plants increase...

The simplest plants, such as the green algae growing in stagnant water or on the bark of trees, are mere round cells. The higher plants increase...

The simplest plants, such as the green algae growing in stagnant water or on the bark of trees, are mere round cells. The higher plants increase...

The simplest plants, such as the green algae growing in stagnant water or on the bark of trees, are mere round cells. The higher plants increase...