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T.1 Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words N5R

A plant or animal that is phototropic grows or moves toward or away from light. The root
photo means light. What does the root trop mean?
carry
Submit
][
turn or move
write or draw

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Answer:

Plant leaves and stems growing away from light due to phototropism.

Plant roots growing away from a water source due to hydrotropism

Step-by-step explanation:

When we are talking about tropism, it is refer to as the response or directional growth or response of plants to stimulus.

We have positive and negative tropism.

The negative tropism occur when plants grow away from the stimulus while positive tropism is when plants grows towards the response of stimulus.

Therefore from the question, negative tropism are

Plant roots growing away from a water source due to hydrotropism

Plant leaves and stems growing away from light due to phototropism

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