If a Disease Quickly Spreads Through a Desert and Kills

question 46

Multiple Choice

If a disease quickly spreads through a desert and kills moths that are the sole pollinators of long-lived yucca plants,the most likely outcome would be that

• A) another pollinator would quickly take over and begin to pollinate the yucca plants.
• B) the yucca plants would self-pollinate.
• C) the yucca plants would die the season after the last yucca moth died.
• D) the yucca plants would not be pollinated and would eventually go extinct.

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