Felicia decides she wants to start growing bonsai trees. in her readings she learns that removing apical branches to promote "back budding" of lateral buds is the basis of the art. what delicate balance does this practice disrupt

It will disrupt "the balance of auxin and cytokinins within the plant body".

The essential developing point at the highest point of the stem of a plant is called terminal bud; it is the place a blossom opens up on a plant. Removing terminal buds will evacuate a few locales of auxin production, subsequently frustrating the harmony amongst auxins and cytokinins in the plant body.

according to classical republican political theory, which democratic republics would function best?

a.   small republics, with people who had similar interests

b.   large republics, with people who had competing interests

c.   republics made up entirely of landowners

d.   republics made up entirely of servants

i am pretty sure it is d.