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← Nature & AnimalsIn tall trees, which limitation arises because gravitational pull increasingly offsets root pressure, diminishing transpiration?
A)Increased hydraulic resistance through embolisms✓
B)Decreased sugar translocation in the phloem
C)Increased rate of photorespiration overall
D)Reduced rate of nitrogen fixation itself
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As tree height increases gravitational pull reduces the water potential, causing increased hydraulic resistance/embolisms because tension overcomes cohesive forces disrupting water columns, therefore affecting transpiration, rather than affecting pholem because sugars or nitrogen fixation.
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