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| morphological adaptations for growing in darkness |
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| when a shoot reaches light = stem elongation slows, leaves expand, roots elongate, and the shoot produces chlorophyl |
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| small molecules and ions in the cell that amplify the signals and transfer it from the receptor to other proteins that carry out the response |
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| post translational modification |
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activates preexisting enzymes
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| transcriptional regulation |
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increases or decreases the synthesis of mRNA encoding a specific enzyme
(second messengers) |
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