Multiple choice

The removal of ring wood of tissues, outside the vascular cambium, from the tree trunk kills it because:

  1. water cannot move up

  2. food does not travel down and root become starved

  3. shoots become starved

  4. annual rings are not produced

  5. none of the above
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The removal of ring wood of tissues, outside the vascular cambium, from the tree trunk kills it because food does not travel down and root become starved.

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