Ok. I don't know about the rest of you, but I find something rather amusing about all this plant hormone stuff. For starters, the first three groups to present in A-block all refered to their hormones as steroids, and with good reason. Because of the five kinds of hormones we're covering right now, four of them induce growth, only one inhibits it. Abscisic acid should hold its head up high, it has alot going against it.
Of course, auxin seems to be in charge. At least one of the other hormones(cytokinins, and I believe gibberellin) depends on auxin to function.
I also give props to ethylene for being a gas, and able to both ripen our fruit and help them rot. Way to play both sides.
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