The property of responding to a stimulus is known as
Metabolism
Evolution
Accretion
Irritability
A
Irritability
B
Evolution
C
Accretion
D
Metabolism
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Irritability is the ability of an organism to respond to the external stimulus. The organism exhibit movement on receiving the stimulus from the internal or the external environment. The most common example of irritability is shown by the Mimosa plant which folds the leaflets by stimuli of touch.
Thus, the correct answer is option B.
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