How do worms affect plant growth?
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The worms dig tunnels which help aerate the soil.  (helps get air into the soil.)  This allows the roots of plants to expand which helps to make the plant grow larger.\n\nI did a science project on worms when I was in the 5th grade....granted that was a long time ago, but I don't think worms have changed much since then.
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No.  Worms do not breath as we do.  They are essentially just one long dirt processing plant.  All gut.  If I remember my High School biology correctly, worms absorb oxygen through their skin, thus do not have breath or lungs.  \n\nPS:  You can cut a worm in half at the smooth section in the center, and it will crawl of and remain alive as two separate worms!!  Cool, huh?\n\nPSS: anojetak ... to funny!!
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By crowding the root system it limits the size and health of the plant
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Hi, \n\n  Its possible. They live in your intestine and use the nutrition that you eat to live. They can cause the symptoms that you described. She did give you the right medicine to treat you. Worms are more of an occurrence that happen to small children that play outside in the dirt and put their hands in their mouth before washing them. I think you'll be fine.
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There are many types of worms i think it depends on the type...if you say a ringworm well microscopically its pesty carnivore coz it eats you up...but if you say an earthworm well its an omnivore coz it lives down on muddy earth deep in the soil...ok human friend but for more info browse the web human friend!!!oh! more info some poeple eat worms! YUCK!
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i would assume that water would work best since a plant doesnt need any other ingredients excpet for the water to grow, other things that might affect the way a plant grows is the amount of sunlight and water it recieves.  This is just my guess from what i have learned in Biology.
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In one seminar I attended, on plants containing pharmaceuticals, the speaker commented that they may have first arisen as an accidental byproduct of the plant's own metabolism.  They lack an excretory system, so they can just shed odd compounds into old leaves, bark, etc, to get them out of living cells.\n\nIf the plant is then under attack by an insect (or other small animal, eg a slug or snail) that tiny herbivore may spend much of its life cycle feeding on a certain plant.  Thus, that animal gets a huge dose of whatever odd compounds the plant has made.\n\nIf these compounds slow down that animal, by killing it, or just confusing it so it drops off the plant, this characteristic will confer a selective advantage to that plant.  It may lead to more of the toxic compound being made, not less.\n\nHe said that these effects are less likely to be useful in deterring larger animals, for whom a certain plant species might form a very small % of a browsing (or gathering) diet.
544359
It's a tissue that grows, and it makes the plant bigger.
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Earthworms are hermaphrodites.  Other types of worms look different; females tending to be larger than males, for one thing.
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The reaction to music is an odd one. The "Mythbusters" did a segment on it once. It seemed that the more SOUND a plant recieved usually resulted in more growth. Therefore, yes music does affect plants.
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i think its smthg like if u play music to a plant it makes it grow faster.... but m not so sure abt it...
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Yes, actually if you water the plants too much the roots gets rotten and die, on the other hand if you don't water the plants they also die, so it has to be a balance, water moderate once a day and plenty of sunlight, that's the idea..☺
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its famaly of viruses,mostly affects plants-potato,barley pea
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If by "red worms" you mean earthworms of the species Eisenia foetida (commonly used for composting), they mostly eat any plant or animal particulate matter that is small enough to enter their mouths; other species (including another common earthworm of genus Lumbricus) can use their sucker-like mouth to ingest relatively large pieces of food. They also ingest live microorganisms along with the detritus. \nEarthworms are part of the soil mesofauna, and usually they don't feed on whole plant parts (such as leaves) but rather on small pieces of particulate matter that have already been generated by other animals of the macro- and mesofauna, especially plant residues (coffee grounds and tea leaves included). They ingest these along with soil inorganic particles (that's why they are important for mixing and carrying organic matter into deeper soil layers).
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Bacteria are involved in decomposition, fixing Nitrates into the soil and digesting plant matter in the guts of herbivorous animals, for starters. Without this crops wouldn't grow, animals couldn't eat them and dead bodies wouldn't break down.
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Wives tale.  Only ingesting the larvae of worms will give you the infection.  The usual method of infection is oral-fecal, meaning you ate something that wasn't washed properly or you didn't wash your hands after touching microscopic amounts of feces with larvae in it.
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It sounds like the kind of thing that would reduce the growth of plants.  But maybe there would be more helpful answers in a section other than "Comics and Animation".