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4. Dr. Strangelove is a scientist who loves eating chestnuts roasting over makes genetically at touches the to bring back chestnut trees to the Eastern United States. To do chestnut trees that express a very powerful anti-fungal protein chestnut trees. He finds that when he grows th with chestnut blight as expected. However, these trees grow very slowlya List two different reasons why killing fungus might inhibit the growth o open fires. Therefore, he wants this, he makes genetically modified that will kill every fungus that touches the and often succumb to infections. f chestnut tress (2 pts). e chestnut trees in the forest, they do not get infected

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1. Fungi oftem associate themselves with the roots of other plants. As the fungi have long mycelium, it increases the surface area of the roots, causing increased water and nutrient absorption. This is absent in this case.

2. Fungi in the soil can break down complex detritus and increase the availability of simpler nutrients in the soil, which is also absent in this case.

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