39. The apprentice in your horticulture lab accidentally trims all of the axillary buds from a particularly prized specimen. After realizing his mistake, he rather glumly asks you, as lead horticulturalist, about the effects on the plant. You predict that (A) the plant will die rapidly from this loss. (B) the plant will regrow the lost buds. (C) the plant will continue its vertical growth and will be a tall and skinny variety. (D) the plant will continue its horizontal spread and will be a wide but short variety.

48. You are studying the bacteria in the water of a nearby pond. From a 100 mL sample, you use a 0.5 mL subsample to inoculate a plastic dish filled with a semisolid nutrient medium that fosters growth of coliform bacteria. After an appropriate incubation period, you count 100 bacterial colonies growing on the surface of the medium. What conclusion can you make about the coliform bacteria in the pond water? (A) There is approximately one coliform bacterial cell per milliliter. (B) There are approximately 200 coliform bacterial cells per milliliter. (C) There is approximately one coliform bacterial species per milliliter. (D) There are approximately 200 coliform bacterial species per milliliter.

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