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What is the difference between the manner in which movement takes place in a sensitive plant and the movement in our legs?

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Movement in sensitive plants

Movement in our legs

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The movementthat takes place in a sensitive plant such as Mimosa pudica occurs in response to touch (stimulus).

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Movement in our legs is an example of voluntary actions.

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For this movement, the information is transmitted from cell to cell by electro-chemical signals as plants do not have any specialised tissue for conduction of impulses.

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The signal or messages for these actions are passed to the brain and hence are consciously controlled.

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For this movement to occur, the plant cells change shape by changing the amount of water in them.

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In animal muscle cells, some proteins are found which allow the movement to occur.



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