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Why does a plant on the windowsill lean toward the glass?

Leave a houseplant by a window and within days it's bending toward the light, as if reaching for it. Plants have no muscles, eyes or brain. So how does it know where the light is, and lean that way?

Seedlings bending toward a light source (phototropism)
Photo: Lequerik · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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