Biology: Concepts and Investigations
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Chapter 13, Problem 7WIO
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To determine:
The term determining the evolutionary divergence of the plants (plants of Chile and San Francisco) that happened long before this seed-dispersal method arose in each plant and to explain the answer.
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The two types of plants present in the two different geographical locations that have the same seed-dispersing method. The plants have diverged from each other before the generation of the seed-dispersing method.
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