Which of the Following Statements About Plant Speciation and Hybridization

question 41

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about plant speciation and hybridization is false?

• A)Plant biologists estimate that 80% of all living plant species are descended from ancestors that formed by polyploid speciation.
• B)Bread wheat grown widely today is the result of several hybridization events.
• C)Bread wheat is the ancestral diploid wheat plant.
• D)Modern plant geneticists use chemicals to induce meiotic and mitotic errors to try to create new hybrid plants with special qualities.

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