The seeds she planted in the mud grew quicker because the mud is holding nutrition for the corn. The soil is a good guess to make, but the mud is more dense and moist. The water wouldn't have had more nutrients than the mud, just because the mud holds breakdown matter and other things from other plants.
The answer is B)Atmosphere
A dwarf is a recessive trait. In order for the plant to be shorter, it would have to have 2 recessive alleles. The plant is also purebread so it wont contain the tall allele. The gametes that are possible are tt.
Evolved from past organisms hope this helps!!!!