A Local Horticulturalist Works with Her City to Design and Plant

question 44

Multiple Choice

A local horticulturalist works with her city to design and plant flower gardens in a targeted effort to provide habitat for bees that are experiencing severe population declines. While making observations on a particular plant species she is considering for these plantings, she observes that the deep purple flowers are visited much more frequently by bees than the light pink flowers (this particular species produces flowers with shades of color varying from deep purple to light pink) . She decides to collect seeds from the deep purple plants and then germinates and grows the deep purple flowered plants in her greenhouse before transplanting them to some of the city gardens. The different colors of flowers indicate different ________ of plants and the horticulturalists is demonstrating ________ selection.

• A) varieties; natural
• B) species; artificial
• C) species; natural
• D) varieties; artificial

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