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   ocr: PLANT MOVEMENT Pihtiren are sensitive to changes in and Climbing their roots plants grow grow toward gravity. environment and respond around: a to them. Sometimes the response 1S support. Tropisms are controlled immediate, such as when the Venus's- by hormones. Plants also react to flytrap closes its leafas an insect lands temperature and day length. The on it and triggers the surface hairs. daisy, for example, opens its "day's Usually, however, plants respond eye" 33 at dawn and closes it at dusk. slowly to change through growth movements known as tropisms. Branch tip grows Plant stems grow t ...