Sunday, January 2, 2011

Plasmodesmata


Perforated channels that run through the cell wall are what plasmodesmata are. Cytoplasm passes through the plasmodesmata and connects the chemical environments of adjacent cells. The adjacent cells become continuous because the channel of each plasmodesmata are the same and the cytoplasm acts like a rod would through each individual cell. In some circumstances, certain proteins and RNA molecules can pass freely from cell to cell as water does in small solutes.

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