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Cork cambium is the protective tissue of a stem. What mechanism does it use to protect the stem?

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Cork cambium is one of the many layers of bark, between the cork and primary phloem. It is responsible for secondary growth that replaces the epidermis in roots and stem. The cork cambium is like vascular cambium that produces cells internally and externally by tangential division.

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