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question 14

Multiple Choice

Yucca plants retain 62% of the flowers that contain up to six moth eggs, but only 11% of the flowers containing nine or more eggs. The yucca aborts these flowers before the moth eggs hatch. This process is only effective for reducing exploitation by moths if

• A) moths that appear later are unable to lay eggs in the yucca flowers.
• B) moths are able to lay more eggs in the unaborted flowers.
• C) the moth larvae in an aborted flower all die.
• D) the moth larvae in an aborted flower move to another yucca.

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