If You Removed a Coleoptile Tip, Placed It on an Agar

question 29

Multiple Choice

If you removed a coleoptile tip, placed it on an agar block for a period of time, and then placed the agar block to the side of the tip of a decapitated coleoptile, which of the following would happen next?

• A) The coleoptile would grow in a spiral pattern.
• B) The coleoptile would die.
• C) The coleoptile would not bend.
• D) The coleoptile would bend away from the side having the agar block.
• E) The coleoptile would bend toward the side having the agar block.

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