(thing) by BioTech Wed Oct 24 2001 at 18:35:19

Guard cells are plant epidermal cells that are found as pairs flanking each side of a stoma (any of many tiny openings in the plant's epidermis that enables the plant's "breathing"). Changes in turgor pressure in the guard cells cause the stoma to open and close.

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