Changing Day Length, as Well as Variations in Precipitation and Temperature

question 15

Multiple Choice

Changing day length, as well as variations in precipitation and temperature, are environmental cues that exert an important influence on

• A) the kinds of genes a plant has.
• B) the number of mutations that genes undergo.
• C) whether a plant is an annual, biennial, or perennial.
• D) which genes will be expressed in a plant.
• E) whether a plant reproduces sexually or asexually.

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