I think the answer would be because if there is an error in the DNA replication, it would affect one generation of cells. if the error would fall in the transcription or translation, there would only be one cell affected.
The answer is C because it is the only one that makes sense to that question.
There is a difference between the stem of these two plants because Ranunculus is dicot and Zea mays is a monocot. <span>Zea mays does not have a vascular cambium and has scattered vascular bundles composed of xylem and phloem tissue. On the other hand, Ranunculus has its vascular bundles in a ring arrangement and ground tissue is differentiated hypodermis, cortex, endodermis, pericycle and pith (there is no differentiation in Zea mays).</span>
