In General, When a Cell or Tissue Type Has to Serve

question 163

Short Answer

In general, when a cell or tissue type has to serve multiple functions that each contribute to fitness, natural selection is constrained from optimizing that tissue of cell type for any one function. With this concept in mind, fill in the blanks in the sentence below with the appropriate term: poor, positive, negative. The terms may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
"In angiosperms you would expect a _____ correlation between the diameter of the water conducting conduits and the mechanical strength of the wood. In gymnoperms you would expect the correlation to be _____."

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Definitions:

Storing

The action of preserving or keeping information, items, or substances in a particular location for future use.

Manipulating

Handling or controlling something in a skilled manner, often with the connotation of unfairness or deceit.

Encoding

The process by which information is transformed into a format that can be stored in memory, an initial step in creating a new memory.

Retrieving

The process of getting information out of memory storage.