On the basis of their morphologies, how might Linnaeus have classified the Hawaiian silverswords? Linnaeus would have _____

A) placed them all in the same species.
B) classified them the same way that modern botanists do.
C) placed more of them in different genera than modern botanists do.
D) used evolutionary relatedness as the primary criterion for their classification.


C

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