How Plants Know Which Way Is Up

Science Underground by Ainissa Ramirez

Apr 10, 201602:01Science & Medicine

Seeds that are buried deep in the soil need to figure out which way their roots and stem should go. Ends up they have special cells to tell them what's up.

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