A student places a plant in a dark room next to a growth lamp, while providing sufficient water and nutrients to ensure the plants growth and survival. The plant is likely to respond by-

PLANT GENETICS

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A student places a plant in a dark room next to a growth lamp, while providing sufficient water and nutrients to ensure the plant’s growth and survival. The plant is likely to respond by-

A	bending towards the lamp.
B	wilting and eventually dying.
C	shedding all of its leaves.
D	increasing its rate of photosynthesis

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Plant roots always grow downward because specialized cells in root caps detect and respond to gravity. This is an example of a tropism. A tropism is a turning toward or away from a stimulus in the environment. Growing toward gravity is called geotropism.

Detailed explanation-2: -When a plant wilts due to a drought, it is responding to which of the following internal stimuli? Decreased water pressure within the plant cells.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plants also have internal stimuli that can cause the organism to respond. For example, if a plant is lacking water inside of its cells, wilting will occur as a response.

Detailed explanation-4: -It provides water for the plant. Which of the following would most likely happen if plants did not respond to geotropism? Plant roots would grow in every direction.

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