| 1. | Collenchyma tissue is composed of elongated cells with irregularly thickened leaves.
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| 2. | Parts of the strings in celery are collenchyma.
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| 3. | Collenchyma tissue makes up things such as the resilient strands in stalks of celery.
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| 4. | The pulvinus is a motor structure consisting of a rod of sclerenchyma surrounded by collenchyma.
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| 5. | Collenchyma cells are typically quite elongated, and may divide transversely to give a septate appearance.
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| 6. | Collenchyma is Greek word where " Collen " means gum and " chyma " means infusion.
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| 7. | The outer cortical cells often acquire irregularly thickened cell walls, and are called collenchyma cells.
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| 8. | Stretchable support ( without elastic snap-back ) is a good way to describe what collenchyma does.
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| 9. | Collenchyma cells are usually living, and have only a thick primary cell wall made up of cellulose and pectin.
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| 10. | Both are embedded in a dense parenchyma tissue, called the sheath, which usually includes some structural collenchyma tissue.
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