Structural adaptation that allowed plants to grow tall?

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Answer. Unlike animals, plants cannot change their position, so whenever conditions are not favorable as per them they always show adaptations in order to meet their survival.

Generally, the plants show the structural adaptations of height to get the maximum sunlight. Plants growing in dense forests like Tropical rain forests show such type of adaptations to gain maximum sunlight. As sunlight provide all the energy to carry on the photosynthesis, thus to acquire this plants sometimes develop climbing structures derived from roots or shoots, or sometimes epiphytic roots that grow on the other plants. With the help of these structures, plant reach out maximum to gain the sunlight. More sunlight means more photosynthesis, more photosynthesis means more food production, means the cells inside plants will divide more quickly because if the increased activity of the meristematic cells. More tracheids, vessels and living tissue will be added, leading to the increase in height.

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