If You Were Able to Walk into an Opening Cut

question 27

Multiple Choice

If you were able to walk into an opening cut into the centre of a large redwood tree, when you exit from the middle of the trunk (stem) outward, you would cross, in order,

• A)the annual rings, new xylem, vascular cambium, phloem, and bark.
• B)the secondary xylem, cork cambium, phloem, and periderm.
• C)the vascular cambium, oldest xylem, and newest xylem.
• D)the secondary xylem, secondary phloem, and vascular cambium.
• E)the summer wood, bark, and phloem.

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