Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305073951
Author: Cecie Starr, Ralph Taggart, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 28, Problem 5SQ
The nutrition of some plants is enhanced by a mutually beneficial association between a root and a
- a. root nodule
- b. myoorrhiza
- c. root hair
- d. hypha
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