How Life Builds Its Plumbing: Blood Vessels vs Plant Veins

Chapters

• 0:00Hook: one cell, no pipes
• 0:27Murray's law: the cheapest way to branch
• 1:23Why an embryo needs vessels
• 2:08First tubes: vasculogenesis
• 2:44Sprouting: tip and stalk cells
• 3:44Joining up: anastomosis
• 4:13Flow sculpts the network
• 5:10Plants cannot move cells
• 5:55Auxin carves the vein channel
• 6:55One strand, two pipelines
• 7:45Two kinds of pipes, one rule

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