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Question
Give one basic functional difference between phellogen and phelloderm.
Solution
Phellogen is a couple of layers thick. It is made of narrow, thin-walled and nearly rectangular cells. Phellogen cuts off cells on both sides.
Phelloderm is the outer cells differentiate into cork or phellem while the inner cells differentiate into secondary cortex or phelloderm.
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