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Mimosa (makahiya) have thorns to warn the animals and people not to go near them. Plants responses are called 'tropism'. The bending of the plant towards the light is called 'phototropism'. Plants response to gravity is called 'gravitropism' or 'geotropism'. The plants response to touch is called 'thigmotropism'. the response to a source of water is called 'hydrotropism'. Plants respond to 'environmental stimuli'. Plants responses to stimuli enable them to survive. These are the protective structure of a Mimosa and other behavioral adaptation of Plants.
Plants produce hormones and respond to external stimuli, growing towards sources of water and light, which they need to survive.
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Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. Although plants can react to stimuli, these reactions do not constitute sentience because plants lack pain receptors, sensory organs, and a central nervous system to process sensations. Animals are able to consciously perceive their environment and consciously respond with many different behaviors to it. Plants lack this variability of response, in that they will react in the same manner regardless of different scenarios. For example, they will grow towards a light source whether they are outdoors and reacting to the path of the sun or indoors reacting to a stationary window or electric light bulb.Animals have evolved sentience because pain can help them to avoid harmful stimuli and pleasure can help them to seek and find beneficial stimuli. Plants have not evolved sentience because it doesn’t benefit them. Plants have no way to move away from drought, deluge, heat, or cold.
An adaptation plants have to survive on land is their vascular tissue. This allows them to absorb food, water, and nutrients through their roots. Photosynthesis also allows them to receive energy via natural sunlight.
Plants DO NOT respond to stimuli
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Plants survive in land by the water
Genetic diversity through genetic adaptation. Put simply - over thousands and millions of years, plants have adapted to their specific living conditions - to enable them to survive long enough to reproduce.
If nothing adapted, nothing would be able to survive. "Adaptions are characteristics that enable organisms to better survive and reproduce. There are three types of adaptions; structural, physiological and behavioural."
Plants don't excel in locomotion, that is, the ability to move on their own. They show a sensitivity to external stimuli, such as food, by consuming it.
Change in the environment is external stimuli and the response of life to external stimuli is adaptation or extinction.