Question: It is easy for us to tell who our family members are, but do plants recognize their own family? Some do, scientists say, according to a report by Science News in early 2010. Guillermo P. Murphy and Susan Dudley are two plant scientists from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. They did a few experiments with Jewelweeds, a kind of flower that grows in wet, shady spots. They found that the flowers seem to know their own flower family. In their experiments, Murphy and Dudley planted jewelweeds in pots with either _ or strangers. When jewelweeds were planted in pots with strangers, the plants started to grow more leaves than if they had been planted alone. This response suggests that plants are competing with strangers for sunlight, since a plant with more leaves can receive more light and make more food. Jewelweeds usually grow in the shade, where sunlight is not enough. When jewelweed seedlings were planted with siblings, they grew a few more branches than they usually would if they were alone - but they did not start growing lots of extra leaves. This behavior suggests the plants are more likely to share resources, rather than compete. According to the Science News report, Jewelweeds are not the first plants that plant scientists have studied for family recognition. In 2007, Dudley and her team studied the Great Lakes sea rocket, a plant that grows on the beach - where it may be hard to get fresh water. In that experiment, the scientists found that when sea rockets were planted with siblings, they tolerated each other. But when they were planted with strangers, the sea rockets reacted by working extra hard to grow lots of roots. Dudley says this just because sea rockets, on the beach, get plenty of sun but struggle for water - so when they're threatened, they compete for water. Jewelweeds have plenty of water but have to compete for sunshine, so they grow more leaves. 1. Who are Guillermo P. Murphy and Susan Dudley?
2. From where?
3. What are they studying?
4. What kind?
5. Do they grow in the bright sunlight?
6. Where do they grow?
7. When did the Jewelweeds grow more branches?
8. Are they the first scientists to study if plants can recognize their family?
9. According to what?
10. What did her team find in 2007?
11. Where do they grow?
12. What do they compete for?
13. What do Jewelweeds have enough of? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. plant scientists
2. Canada.
3. flowers
4. Jewelweeds
5. No
6. wet, shady spots
7. when planted in pots with strangers
8. No
9. Science News report
10. When sea rockets were planted with siblings, they tolerated each other. But when they were planted with strange
11. the beach
12. water
13. sun

Question: CHAPTER III

JERNYNGHAM MAKES A DECISION

Prescott's guests had spent a week at his homestead with content when Colston and his wife sat talking one morning.

"I'm frankly puzzled," said Colston, opening his cigar case; "I can't make Cyril out. He's frugal, remarkably industrious--I think the description's warranted--and, from all that one can gather, as steady as a rock. This, of course, is gratifying, but it's by no means what I expected."

"He certainly doesn't fit in with the picture his sister Gertrude drew me, though she conveyed the impression that she was softening things down. There can be no doubt that he was wild. That might, perhaps, be forgiven, but one or two of the stories I've heard about him filled me with disgust."

Her husband looked thoughtful. He had not noticed that Muriel was sitting just outside the open window, though Mrs. Colston, being in a different position, had done so. She thought their voices would reach the girl, and if anything strongly in Cyril's disfavor cropped up during the conversation it might be as well that she should hear it. Mrs. Colston was willing that he should be reconciled to his relatives, but a reformed rake was not the kind of man to whom she wished her sister to be attracted. One could not tell whether the reformation would prove permanent.

"After all, I never heard any really serious offense proved against him," Colston rejoined. "It's sometimes easy to acquire a reputation without doing anything in particular to deserve it. People are apt to jump at conclusions." 1. Who was outside the window?
2. What was she doing?
3. Did anyone see her?
4. Who?
5. What did Colston open?
6. Was he perplexed?
7. Who did he not understand?
8. Who had visitors?
9. Where?
10. How long?
11. When were the Coltons having a conversation?
12. Did somebody have a sibling?
13. Was it a brother?
14. And her name?
15. Did the wife want her to overhear the conversation?
16. Who had once been a rake? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Muriel
2. sitting
3. yes
4. Mrs. Colston
5. his cigar case
6. yes
7. Cyril
8. Prescott
9. at his homestead
10. a week
11. one morning
12. yes
13. no
14. Gertrude
15. yes
16. Cyril

Question: CHAPTER XV

THREE INTERVIEWS

The next day was a Sunday, and the Colonel went to church, wearing a hat-band four inches deep. Morris, however, declined to accompany him, saying that he had a letter to write to Mary; whereon his father, who at first was inclined to be vexed, replied that he could not be better employed, and that he was to give her his love. Then he asked if Miss Fregelius was coming, but somewhat to his disappointment, was informed that she wished to stay with her father.

"I wonder," thought the Colonel to himself as he strolled to the church, now and again acknowledging greetings or stopping to chat with one of the villagers--"I wonder if they are going to have a little sacred music together in the chapel. If so, upon my soul, I should like to make the congregation. And that pious fellow Morris, too--the blameless Morris--to go philandering about in this fashion. I hope it won't come to Mary's ears; but if it does, luckily, with all her temper, she is a sensible woman, and knows that even Jove nods at times."

After the service the Colonel spoke to various friends, accepted their condolences upon the death of Mr. Porson, and finally walked down the road with Eliza Layard.

"You must have found that all sorts of strange things have happened at the Abbey since you have been away, Colonel Monk," she said presently in a sprightly voice.

"Well, yes; at least I don't know. I understand that Morris has improved that blessed apparatus of his, and the new parson and his daughter have floated to our doors like driftwood. By the way, have you seen Miss Fregelius?" 1. who went to church
2. who wanted to stay home with her dad
3. who did not want to go with the colonel
4. who walked down the road
5. who did he go with
6. who came in the door lake floating wood
7. who wrote a letter
8. was he to send his love for someone to her
9. who has a temper
10. does the parson have a daughter
11. what does Jove do at times
12. how deep is the hat band
13. who is blameless
14. did colonel talk to talk with the town folk
15. who passed away
16. what day was it
17. where did odd things happen
18. who was vexed
19. was someones sur name Layard
20. did colonel have many friends Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. The Colonel
2. Miss Fregelius
3. Morris
4. The Colonel
5. Eliza Layard.
6. the new parson and his daughter
7. Morris
8. Yes
9. Mary
10. Yes
11. He nods
12. 4 inches
13. Morris
14. Yes
15. Mr. Porson
16. Sunday
17. At the Abbey
18. Morris' father
19. Yes
20. Yes