Why is the cassava plant difficult to engineer without the help of modern biotechnology?
A) The plant has a very low mutation rate.
B) The plant is long lived making selective breeding ineffective.
C) The plant is integral to African agriculture and is already optimized.
D) The plant does not undergo recombination events,which limits genetic drift.
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