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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by SAM.

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We all know he's the one who really saved Middle-Earth.

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Which definition of the SAM is most likely to be agreed upon by both scientists?

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And here are your potential answers...

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Uh oh. This question is asking for us to find something a

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couple of scientists actually agree on.

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Not gonna be easy. These two seem to be the stubborn sort...

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Well, first let's get rid of option C.

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SAM may or may not be the name of one of the scientists...but we will never know.

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We can get rid of D because the beginning of Paragraph 1

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says that SAM is a region of the stem, not a stress.

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And... why don't we get rid of B as well because last time we checked,

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hormones are not the same thing as regions.

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So, that leaves us with A... the SAM is the region of the plant where rapid growth occurs

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to generate new leaves and flowers.

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Sounds like a pretty close match to the definition of SAM in paragraph 1.

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So A's our answer.

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And yes...

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A is our preciousssss...

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