Assertion: meristem's cell | /r/CapableOf | serve as stem cells
Facets:
value: in animals
type: OTHER
value: in these ways
type: MANNER
value: to the surrounding peripheral region
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Cells at the shoot apical meristem summit serve as stem cells to the surrounding peripheral region, where they proliferate rapidly and are incorporated into differentiating leaf or flower primordia.
text: These cells are undifferentiated, meaning that they are not initially specialized in anything themselves, and they will continue to divide indefinitely; in these ways, meristematic cells function like stem cells in animals.