Question 26

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

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