As part of an experiment, you grow some plants in an environment including carbon dioxide with radioactive carbon isotope 14C as a tracer. After a few days you take the plants out and look for the tracer. You find it primarily in the roots. How did it get there? Why is it in the roots?

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As part of an experiment, you grow some plants in an environment including carbon dioxide with radioactive carbon isotope 14C as a tracer. After a few days you take the plants out and look for the tracer. You find it primarily in the roots. How did it get there? Why is it in the roots?

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