You and your neighbor each have a holly bush in your yards.You carefully water and care for your bush,but it fails to produce berries.Your neighbor,on the other hand,neglects his holly,yet it produces gorgeous red berries each year.Finally,in frustration,you replace your holly with a rose bush.The next year,your neighbor's holly bush has no berries at all.What happened?

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Holly plants are dioecious, meaning there are separate male and female plants. Female holly plants need to be pollinated by a male holly plant in order to produce berries. It's possible that your holly plant was a male and your neighbor's was a female, and when you replaced your holly with a rose bush, there was no longer a nearby male holly plant to pollinate your neighbor's female holly plant, resulting in no berries.

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