When a Nursery Worker Pinches Off the Terminal Buds on a Young

question 50

Multiple Choice

When a nursery worker pinches off the terminal buds on a young plant to make it grow bushy, which plant hormone, when produced, is mainly responsible for growth of side branches?

• A) an auxin
• B) a gibberellin
• C) a cytokinin
• D) abscisic acid (ABA)

Understand the effectiveness and challenges of drug prevention programs like DARE.

Recognize the social learning process involved in experiencing and using drugs as proposed by Howard Becker.

Analyze the link between socioeconomic status and drug use, including the myth of marijuana as a status drug.

Identify the reasons behind the easy abuse of prescription drugs and the role of the medical community.

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Definitions:

Cellular Respiration

Metabolic reactions that use the energy from carbohydrate, fatty acid, or amino acid breakdown to produce ATP molecules.

Decomposers

Organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, contributing to the nutrient cycle by recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.

Food Chain

The order in which one population feeds on another in an ecosystem, thereby showing the flow of energy from a detritivore (detrital food chain) or a producer (grazing food chain) to the final consumer.

Algae

A diverse group of photosynthetic organisms, ranging from unicellular microalgae to large multicellular forms, that are typically found in aquatic environments.