Plants, unlike most animals, can occasionally form new species in one generation. The mechanism by which this happens is
A. numerous mutations happening at once in an organism.
B. isolation.
C. punctuated equilibrium.
D. a doubling or a tripling of the chromosome numbers.
D. a doubling or a tripling of the chromosome numbers.
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