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Question
Name five stimuli which act on plants. Name the type of tropism produced by each one of these stimuli.
Solution
- Light produces phototropism
- Water produces hydrotropism
- Touch produces thigmotropism
- Chemicals produce chemotropism
- Gravity produces geotropism
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