A 15-Foot Tree Growing in a Fence Row Is Used

question 35

Multiple Choice

A 15-foot tree growing in a fence row is used as a fence post to which barbed wire is stapled at a height of 5 feet.Years later,the tree is 30 feet high.The barbed wire of the fence is embedded in the tree bark at

• A)5 feet high,since the lengthening of the trunk occurs at the apical meristem.
• B)15 feet up,since the tree doubled in height.
• C)20 feet up,still 10 feet from the top of the tree.
• D)20 feet up,but because it added 15 feet to the original 5-foot height.
• E)10 feet up,half of the increase in size; the second half is an increase in the girth of the tree.

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