You purchase two identical houseplants and place them side by side on your windowsill. You water both plants equally. One plant, plant a, you leave alone. On the other plant, plant b, you inject florigen into the cells of the apical meristem. Which of the following would you expect to occur?
A. Both plants will produce flowers at the same time, but plant b will have more of them.
B. Plant b will produce a flower at its apical meristem.
C. Once the flower is gone, the apical meristem will develop again, and plant b will continue to grow from that stem.
D. In subsequent years, plant b will only generate flowers in the same place.
E. While flowering, the leaves will stop growing on plant b because florigen inhibitsleaf meristems.
F. Once the flower is gone, plant b will grow taller, but only from growth of lateral meristems.
B,F
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