A researcher found a beautiful plant while traveling in Alaska and collected its seeds. When she came back to Florida, she soaked some seeds in pure water and some in water with a hormone. When she put the seeds in soil to grow, only the seeds that had been soaked with the hormone germinated. The hormone most likely was ________.

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Gibberellin is a hormone known to promote seed germination. Therefore, the seeds soaked in water with gibberellin likely germinated as a result of being exposed to this hormone.

A Researcher Found a Beautiful Plant While Traveling in Alaska