OPEN CONNECTED SYSTEM. “The plant does not organize its milieu; it is comprised of a series of internal communicative networks (e.g., biochemical and hormonal channels, or synaptic cell-cell communication) and external communication pathways that connect it to its environment. It is, thus, an open system, coupled with its environment.”
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