When botanist Jack Harlan, using a primitive stone sickle, harvested wild wheat in southeastern Turkey, he demonstrated that
A) it would be easier for foragers to domesticate wheat than barley.
B) that a family of four could harvest a year's food supply in about three weeks.
C) that it was impossible to use wheat for food until it was genetically altered by domestication.
D) that wild wheat could provide only a meager and uncertain food supply.
E) none of the above
B
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What will be an ideal response?