Which statement best characterizes secondary growth?
a. It result...

Question

Which statement best characterizes secondary growth?
a. It results from cell divisions in the vascular and cork cambia.
b. It increases the length of the plant stem.
c. It results from divisions in the apical meristem cells.
d. It often produces phloem cells to the inside and xylem cells to the outside of the vascular cambium.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So secondary growth which is caused by solve division in the blank, increases the blank of the plant. Well in order to solve this problem, I need you to recall that there is two primary types of growth that a plan may go through. One of them is primary growth and primary growth is going to take place in the optical mary stem. And then we have secondary growth and the secondary growth is going to be taking place in the lateral mercer Because of this this secondary growth is going to take place in the lateral and we're going to be eliminating all answer choices that do not include the lateral mercy and leaving us with answer choice is B and C. So the lateral Murray stem or growth here is going to increase the what of the plan. Well since growth is taking place laterally it is going to increase the width or the girth of this plant. It is not really going to increase the length, it is not going to make the plant taller because this is the function of this ethical Murray stand which is going to grow the plant vertically. The lateral mary stem is going to grow the plan, the plan laterally or just horizontally because of this, we're going to eliminate answer choice. B and or correct answer choice is going to be answer choice. E secondary growth which is caused by cell division in the lateral mary stem, increases the girth of the plan. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one.

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