As an Undergraduate Research Assistant, You Are Assisting with a Radioisotope

question 4

Multiple Choice

As an undergraduate research assistant, you are assisting with a radioisotope tracer experiment. You expose a mature leaf on one side of the lower shoot of a sugar beet plant to 14CO2 and then track the movement of the 14C atoms by radiography. Where are you LEAST likely to detect 14C?

• A) the treated leaf
• B) the shoot apical meristem
• C) the roots
• D) a mature upper leaf on the opposite side of the plant from the treated leaf
• E) a young leaf directly above the treated leaf

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