You perform an experiment in which you take 16 pots of strawberry plants and give half of them 1 gram of ammonium nitrate per liter of water and the other half just get water. Each group is then split in half again, and exposed to either 8 or 16 hours of light each day. You monitor the height of the plants for four weeks. You observe that increasing ammonium nitrate and light both increase plant height. -A plant takes up nutrients like ammonium nitrate to maintain
A) natural selection. B) asexual reproduction. C) homeostasis. D) evolution. E) sexual reproduction.