In the accompanying figure, the structure labeled as 2:

a. responds to a lack of light.
b. protects the stem tip as it moves through the soil.
c. is the first structure to emerge from the seed during germination.
d. is called the coleoptile.
e. surrounds and protects the young shoot.


b

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