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.
You didn't list any...
LAC = inducible repressor
TRP = repressive
Ribosomes since its produce proteins maybe
B. Depth creates the overall weight and more something is to be measured
They are kinda like catalysts