State whether the following statements are true or false.
Went's experiment in 1926 with oat coleoptiles showed that agar that absorbed auxin from the tips would cause a tipless shoot to grow away from the side where he had placed. the agar, suggesting that auxin causes cells to elongate.

True

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The correct option is A True
Went (1928) in his experiment collected the excised tips of coleoptiles and covered them with jelly or agar gel. He then found out that the hormones that are present traveled from the base to the apex and thus causing the bending of decapitated coleoptile towards the concentration of agar. This growth promoting substance was later named as auxin.
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State whether the following statements are true or false.Went's experiment in 1926 with oat coleoptiles showed that agar that absorbed auxin from the tips would cause a tipless shoot to grow away from the side where he had placed. the agar, suggesting that auxin causes cells to elongate.

State whether the following statements are true or false.
Went's experiment in 1926 with oat coleoptiles showed that agar that absorbed auxin from the tips would cause a tipless shoot to grow away from the side where he had placed. the agar, suggesting that auxin causes cells to elongate.