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How is the movement of leaves of a sensitive plant different from the movement of a shoot towards light?

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The movement of leaves of a sensitive plant is a nastic movement, i.e. it does not depend on the direction of the stimulus. On the other hand the movement of a shoot towards light is ap tropic movement. i.e it depends on the direction from which light is coming.
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