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While conducting experiments to study the effect of various stimuli on the plants, it was observed that the roots of a plant X grow and bend towards two stimuli A and B but bend away from a third stimulus C. The stem of the plant X, however, bends away from stimuli A and B but bends towards the stimulus. C.The stimulus B is known to act on the roots due to too much weight of the earth. Keeping these points in mind, answer the following questions:
(a) What could stimulus A be?
(b) Name the stimulus B.
(c) What could stimulus C be?
(d) The branches of a fallen tree in a forest grow straight up in response to two stimuli. What could be these two stimuli out of A,B and C? Also name these two stimuli.

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(a) Water (b) Gravity (c) Light (d) B and C; Gravity and Light (or Sunlight)
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