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STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION UNDER the influence of Darwin's concept of ‘survival of the fittest’, a tendency to assume all structural features to be adaptive was strengthened. It is, of course, essential that the structure of plant organs should enable them to carry out their functions adequately; but perfect adaptation of tissues to their functions would be difficult to define.
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THODAY, D. Interpretation of Plant Structure*. Nature 144, 571–575 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144571a0
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