If Two Plant Species with Different Habitat Associations, Species X

question 13

Multiple Choice

If two plant species with different habitat associations, Species X and Species Y, hybridize, and the resulting progeny are well adapted to living and reproducing only in a novel habitat in which neither parental species can live, which of the following is least likely to be true?

• A) The hybrids will compete with some species with which the parental species do not compete.
• B) The hybrids will interact with some pollinator species with which the parental species did not interact.
• C) The hybrids will compete with and replace the parental species.
• D) The parents will coexist in the geographic region in which they and the parental species occur.

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