As an undergraduate research assistant, you are assisting with a radioisotope tracer experiment. You expose a mature leaf on one side of the lower shoot of a sugar beet plant to 14CO2 and then track the movement of the 14C atoms by radiography

Where are you LEAST likely to detect 14C? A) the treated leaf
B) the shoot apical meristem
C) the roots
D) a mature upper leaf on the opposite side of the plant from the treated leaf


D

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