A growing root comes into contact with a chemical that inhibits the golgi bodies. Which of the following would be a probable effect of this contact?  

A.  The root would begin to growing in an upward direction.
B.  The root would not be slick enough to move through the soil easily.
C.  The root would begin to simultaneously grow in multiple directions.
D.  The root would produce too much mucigel and oxygen uptake would be inhibited.
E.  The root cap cells would begin to divide rapidly.


B.  The root would not be slick enough to move through the soil easily.

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Suppose that in studies of genes on the same chromosome you find the following recombination frequencies:Figure

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The movement of water through a plant is

driven by

a. the drying power of the air. b. osmosis. c. active pumping using ATP. d. root pressure. e. a combination of more than one of these

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SNP-chips are used ____

a. to sequence DNA. b. in DNA profiling c. for full genome sequencing d. in PCR e. with short tandem repeat profiling

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