Suppose Your Goal Was to Engineer a Plant That Would

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Multiple Choice

Suppose your goal was to engineer a plant that would not elicit a shade-avoidance response in neighboring plants, without reducing the engineered plant's ability to absorb light usable for photosynthesis. Your BEST strategy would be to alter the leaves so that they:

• A)absorb less red light.
• B)reflect more far-red light.
• C)absorb more far-red light.
• D)absorb more red light.

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Definitions:

Opening

Creating a gap or space, providing access or an entrance to something.

Center

Often used in various contexts to denote the middle point of something; in geometry, it refers to the point equidistant from all points on the circumference of a circle or surface of a sphere.

Visual Pigment

Light-sensitive molecules found in photoreceptor cells of the retina, essential for converting light into visual signals.

Color-Blind

A visual impairment where an individual has difficulty distinguishing between certain colors.