Which Statement About Dispersal Is False

question 62

Multiple Choice

Which statement about dispersal is false?

• A) Dispersal is a common component of the life cycles of plants and animals.
• B) Colonization of devastated areas after floods or volcanic eruptions depends on dispersal.
• C) Dispersal occurs only on an evolutionary time scale.
• D) Seeds are important dispersal stages in the life cycles of most flowering plants.
• E) The ability to disperse can expand the geographic distribution of a species.

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