Work by Scott Bizily, Richard Meagher, and colleagues in the 1990s produced Arabidopsis thaliana

plants that are able to take up ____ from the soil and convert it into a much less dangerous substance.



a. arsenic
b. methylmercury
c. chelated iron
d. lead
e. uranium hexafluoride


B

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