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Negative tropism means: 

  1. Plants growing towards a stimulus
  2. Plants growing away from the stimulus.
  3. Plants not responding to stimulus.
  4. Plant changing its pattern of growth.

hintHint:

Tropism is either towards or away from the stimulus.

The correct answer is: Plants growing away from the stimulus.


    The correct option is b) Plants growing away from the stimulus.
    The turning of a plant or a part of it in response to a stimulus such as light, water, gravity etc. is called tropism. Tropism are of two type: negative and positive.
    Negative tropism is when plants or a part of the plants moves away from the stimulus. The stem moves in the opposite direction to gravity which shows negative geotropism.

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