Sunlight is the stimulus and the bending of the plant towards it is the ______
While conducting experiments to study the effect of various stimuli on the plants, it was observed that the roots of a plant X grow and bend towards two stimuli A and B but bend away from a third stimulus C. The stem of the plant X, however, bends away from stimuli A and B but bends towards the stimulus C. The stimulus B is known to act on the roots due to too much weight of the earth. Keeping these points in mind, answer the following questions :
(a) What could stimulus A be?
(b) Name the stimulus B.
(c) What could stimulus C be?
(d) The branches of a fallen tree in a forest grow straight up in response to two stimuli. What could be these two stimuli out of A, B and C? Also, name these two stimuli.
A potted plant having straight parts A and B were placed horizontally on its side as shown in Figure (i). After a few days, it was observed that the parts A and B of the plant acquire new positions as shown in Figure (ii).
(a) Name the phenomenon exhibited by the position of plant parts A and B in Figure (ii).
(b) Name the stimulus (other than sunlight) which causes plant parts A to grow and bend upwards, and plant part B to bend downwards.