Information & Ideas — module quiz

Interleaved across all four skills — the evidence types are the confusable pair.

Information & Ideas — interleaved module check

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Botanists call a plant an obligate outcrosser if it cannot produce viable seed from its own pollen. In a greenhouse trial, researchers hand-pollinated 240 flowers of the rare shrub Corvia stellata using pollen taken from the same plant; none of the 240 set seed. The researchers note that daytime temperatures in the greenhouse ran about six degrees above the range the shrub experiences in the field, and that in a companion trial pollen from these same plants fertilised flowers of neighbouring individuals only when temperatures were held near field levels. The greenhouse result therefore ______

Which choice most logically completes the text?