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Here’s your shmoop du jour, brought to you by stress-dependent patterns.

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“Stress-dependent patterns: more than just eating the entire pint of ice cream.”

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Here we have a passage, along with two different viewpoints about the passage provided by scientists.

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Go ahead and get acquainted.

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Which of these potential answers is supported in both scientists’ viewpoints?

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So, what’s this question really asking?

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When you boil it down, we’ve got 2 scientists—one on Team Auxin, the other on Team Stress,

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and we’re being asked which statement could align with both of their viewpoints.

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Let’s go down the line and see what we can find out.

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Option A simply says stress causes patterning.

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Scientist 2 went off at length about exactly that, but Scientist 1 didn’t even say a

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peep about stress. This isn’t the answer we’re looking for.

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What about option B, which says auxin causes patterning?

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Scientist 1 sure seems to think so, but Scientist 2 specifically said that’s not the case.

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In fact, Scientist 2 specifically goes out of his way to say, “oh, nuh uh” at the auxin-only idea.

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Hey pal, what did auxin ever do to you?

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Moving on to option C, Scientist 1 spends a large portion of his passage

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saying that auxin is present in the SAM.

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And scientist 2 finished his viewpoint by saying the combination of auxin and mechanical

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stress causes patterning.

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This option looks pretty good, but let’s check option D to be sure.

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Option D says “PIN 1 clustering is important.”

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Well, we’re sure it is, but neither scientist mentioned this at all in his viewpoint.

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We can toss that one out. And we’re left with C,

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as in, “Come on…hug it out, you two.”

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