You are given an elementary science question along with a few answer options. List all the words from the question that are essential and sufficient for choosing the correct answer option. Keep in mind that essential words are necessary to understand the meaning of the given question. However, non-essential words provide little information needed to select the correct answer. You can think about it like this: If the question was in another language, knowing the meaning of which words were necessary and enough for you to understand the question and answer it?. If your answer consists of multiple spans of words from the question, separate those using a comma (", "). Do not generate any word that is not present in the question. Make sure that your response is contained in the given question and the words are in the same order as the question.
 Grammatical correctness is not important.

Q: Question: Carbon dioxide is necessary for photosynthesis to happen. How do plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? (A) Through the petals (B) Through the stigma (C) Through the stomata (D) Through the stem?

A: plants, absorb, carbon, dioxide, atmosphere?
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Q: Question: Students are performing an experiment to determine what effect adding fertilizer has on a plant's flower blossoms. Each day, they observe and measure the flowers on both the fertilized plant and the unfertilized control plant. All of the following might be useful observations except ___. (A) how many blooms each plant has (B) the number of petals on each plant's blooms (C) how large each plant's blooms are (D) how wide the leaves on each plant are?

A: experiment, effect, adding, fertilizer, blossoms., observe, measure, flowers, useful, observations, except
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Q: Question: Which of the following does competition affect? (A) The size of an animal (B) The shape of a tree (C) The growth of a population (D) All of the answers are correct.?

A:
competition, affect?
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