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When Africanized bees spread into an area occupied with European bees, previously docile hives of European bees gradually become short-tempered. Explain why this is the case.
 
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How do auxin and cytokinin work in apical dominance?
 
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6 years ago
Answer to q. 1

Africanized bees also mate with European queens. Africanized genes spread this way into European hives. Africanized bees respond much more strongly to an alarm pheromone.

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When a shoot is lengthening at the tip, its lateral buds are typically dormant, an effect called apical dominance. Auxin maintains apical dominance by regulating production and transport of cytokinin in a stem, and by promoting expression of an enzyme that breaks it down. If a shoot's tip breaks off, its source of auxin disappears, so the cytokinin level rises in the stem. The cytokinin moves into lateral buds and stimulates cell divisions of apical meristem inside them. These newly active meristem cells produce auxin, which is transported away from the bud tips and down the stem. The movement causes the lateral buds to lengthen and form new shoots.
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6 years ago
Appreciate this a lot, answers were right.
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