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How is coordination in plants different from coordination in animals ?

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Coordination in plants is different from coordination in animals as follows :
(1) Animals have a controlling and coordinating the activities of the body. But plants have neither a nervous system nervous system for nor muscles.
(2) Unlike that In animals, the plants do not possess any muscular tissue or any specialised protein, even then the plant cells change their shape by changing the quantity of water contained therein. The cell expands or swells when the amount of water therein increases and the cells shrink or contract when the amount of water is reduced (decreased).
(3) Unlike that in animals, the plants have no tissue to pass any message from one tissue to the other. Yet the plant cells can pass electrical and chemical signals and thereby convey this information from one cell to another.
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