Choose the One Most Appropriate Answer for Each

question 40

Multiple Choice

Choose the one most appropriate answer for each. Each letter will be used once.
-abscisic acid

• A)growth response that orients parts of a plant in a direction influenced by light
• B)burst of hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide that causes infected cells to commit suicide
• C)an organism's response to changes in length of day relative to night
• D)organelle involved in sensing gravity
• E)light-sensitive pigment that helps set plant circadian rhythm based on length of night
• F)flowering after a long season of cold temperatures
• G)closes stomata in times of stress
• H)initiates fruit ripening in nearby fruits
• I)flowers only when hours of darkness fall below a critical value
• J)flavonoid in cocoa responsible for the unusual absence of heart disease in the Kuna
• K)occurring on a 24-hour cycle
• L)flowers only when hours of darkness are greater than some critical value
• M)activates systemic acquired resistance
• N)inhibits the growth of lateral roots
• O)mobilizes food reserves in germinating seeds

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Definitions:

Voting Paradox

is a situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (A is preferred to B, B is preferred to C, and C is preferred to A), despite the individual preferences being consistent.

Majority-Rule Voting

A decision-making process where the option that receives more than half of the votes is chosen, commonly used in democratic systems and organizations.

Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the preferences of individual voters are not, leading to a lack of consistent aggregation of individual preferences into a coherent group order.

Impossibility Theorem

A principle, also known as Arrow's impossibility theorem, stating that it is impossible to devise a social welfare function that fairly ranks societal preferences in the presence of three or more options.