Biological Science (6th Edition)
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Author: Scott Freeman, Kim Quillin, Lizabeth Allison, Michael Black, Emily Taylor, Greg Podgorski, Jeff Carmichael
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An experiment to test whether Pilobolus shoots its sporangia preferentially toward light and provide a hypothesis with its associated advantages for such a preference for light.
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Pilobolus is the
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