| 1. | Near the tip of the finer roots are single cell root hairs.
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| 2. | Plants can absorb nitrate or ammonium from the soil via their root hairs.
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| 3. | Stalk-eyed flies roost at night on root hairs hanging by streams.
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| 4. | The roots get up to 800 mm long and covered in fine root hairs.
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| 5. | Hatchlings locate roots and begin feeding on the fine root hairs, burrowing into root tips.
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| 6. | The root, especially the root hair, is the essential organ for the uptake of nutrients.
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| 7. | Just prior to the root hair cell development, there is a point of elevated phosphorylase activity.
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| 8. | The larvae dine on these entrees and occasionally on the fine root hairs of the plant.
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| 9. | The white larva emerges in about two weeks and feeds on the roots and root hairs.
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| 10. | Tip growth occurs in algae ( e . g ., root hairs and pollen tubes ).
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