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curlz

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on: Aug 14, 2013
One major potential benefit resulting from protoplast fusion experiments in agriculturally relevant species is
A) there is an increased potential of hopeful mutants.
B) species that are normally sexually incompatible can sometimes be successfully fused. producing offspring with traits of both parent species.
C) many new species can be produced in a short period of time.
D) deleterious traits are often removed by this process.
E) genetically unrelated species can be successfully combined to produce new species with much larger genomes and adaptive potentials.


mydiamond

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Reply #1 on: Aug 22, 2013
I know it's B,

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