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Natural cork is a layer harvested from the cork oak and so was once part of a living thing. Once harvested and formed for use, it is no longer alive.
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Cork is a type of tree bark and forms a dead outer protective layer on the tree.
Once harvested from the trees and made into corks for bottles, cork boards, etc. it is long dead.
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Is cork alive?
A cork cell is a non living cell. These cells form a protective tissue that displaces the stem epidermis as the plant's diameter increases in size. These cells are produce from the living cork cambium. As the cork cambium cells divide, the push older cells towards the outside of the plant where they die and form cork and bark. Will it can The cells of the phellem are called cork cells, they are generated centrifugally, are non-living and have suberized cell walls. The phelloderm consists of cells given off towards the inside of the phellogen, forming the inner part of the periderm.
Do corks have vacuoles?
yes cork does have a large vacuoles because it is a plant cell. all plant cells have vacuoles that take up most of the volume in a plant cell. cork is a non-living cell from the bark of a cork oak tree. hope this answered your question!;)
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Where did Robert hooke get the idea for the term cell?
In 1663, Hooke observed the structure of a thin slice of cork using a compound microscope he had built himself. Cork, the bark of an oak tree, is made up of cells that are no longer alive. To Hooke, the cork looked like tiny rectangular rooms, which he called cells.
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Cork comes from a cork tree :]
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