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Question
Study the diagram given below and answer the questions that follow:
- Name the phenomenon depicted by the shoot in the above diagram.
- Which plant hormone plays an important role in the above movement?
- Complete and rewrite the given statement by filling in the correct terms:
Shoots show positive ______ whereas, roots show positive ______.
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Solution
- Phototropism of plant.
- Auxin hormone.
- Shoots show positive phototropism whereas, roots show positive geotropism.
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