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As a Farmer You Spray Your Weed-Infested Crops with a Herbicide

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As a farmer you spray your weed-infested crops with a herbicide containing glyphosate. Glyphosate stops plants from producing aromatic amino acids needed for development. The main reason you are not worried this will affect the growth of your crops is that


A) glyphosate resistant crops are produced to create higher amounts of enzymes that make aromatic amino acids.
B) different plants respond differently to glyphosate, crops have a enzyme that breaks down glyphosate to a harmless substrate.
C) crops are genetically engineered to extract higher amounts of aromatic amino acid from the soil bacteria.
D) crops have been sprayed with a soil bacteria that protects the plants from the mechanism of glyphosate.

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