If there were no fungi, which of the following would occur?

A) Plants would overrun the Earth.
B) Nutrient recycling would stop.
C) Oxygen production would stop.
D) Grazing animals would be unable to digest plants.


B

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Although bees carry pollen from tulip flowers to the blossoms on cherry trees, hybrid seeds are not produced because of

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In his book The Origin of Species, Darwin argued that species living today descended from a succession of ancestral species. What mechanism did Darwin propose to explain how evolution occurs?

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