Plant Hormones - Paper 2

Question 1

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Where are auxins produced?

Answer 1

In the meristems of plant roots and shoots

Question 2

What does light do to auxins?

Answer 2

Breaks them down

This is why they accumulate on the dark side of roots and shoots, causing positive phototropisms in shoots and negative phototropisms in roots

Question 3

Do auxins accumulate on the light or dark side of roots/shoots?

Answer 3

Dark side

Because light breaks them down