A Food-Engineering Company Is Interested in Producing a New Species

question 8

Multiple Choice

A food-engineering company is interested in producing a new species of strawberry that has fruit that weigh a half a kilogram each.Which of the following is most likely correct regarding how this could hypothetically be accomplished?

• A)Adaptation of the plant to support the weight of the strawberries will have to occur over many generations for evolution of the new species to happen.
• B)Natural stressors from the environment will select for plants that can support the weight of larger strawberries in order to increase their survival.
• C)Only strawberry plants that can support the weight of larger strawberries will reproduce.
• D)Gene editing techniques could potentially modify those genes related to fruit size.

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