The type of defense in which plants produce chemicals that cause the uninfected cells around a site of infection to die, leading to isolation of the infected region, is called:

A. systemic acquired resistance.
B. biotrophic defense.
C. avirulent resistance.
D. the hypersensitive response.
E. the wilting response.


D

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a. replication

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