Multiple Choice
Why is speciation by polyploidy more likely in plants than in animals?
A) Plants lack the DNA repair enzymes that animals have.
B) Plants are sessile and cannot speciate via dispersal.
C) Plant gametes can be produced from somatic cells that have undergone many rounds of mitosis.
D) Plant gametes lack postzygotic isolating mechanisms.
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