Which option describes the likely result of the damage in the following scenario? During the process of germination, the radicle of a dicot seed is damaged by gnawing rodents.

the cotyledon will fail to open and provide nourishment

hypocotyl growth will be slowed or stopped

root growth will be slowed or stopped

germination will halt

germination will halt

Explanation:

Germination will be stopped because radicle helps in absorbing of nutrients from the soil that leads to germination of the seedlings. Radicle are the first roots that emerge from the seed that is responsible for the absorption of nutrients from the soil in order to increase the growth of seedlings in size. If this radicle get damaged, the growth of the plumule is stopped due to no absorption of nutrients from the soil that is necessary for the growth and development of the plant.

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle