All of the following are true of the relationship between the yucca and the yucca moth EXCEPT
A) the yucca plant is dependent on the yucca moth to reproduce, but the yucca moth can lay its eggs in any of several kinds of flowers.
B) the female moth collects yucca pollen.
C) the yucca moth spreads pollen on the stigma of the yucca flower in which it lays its eggs.
D) the moth lays its eggs directly inside the yucca ovary, where its eggs hatch into caterpillars.
E) some of the developing yucca seeds feed the yucca caterpillars.
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