Fruit flies normally produce two types of antimicrobial peptides (defensin and drosomycin) .Mutant fruit flies were generated that produced no antimicrobial peptides,defensin only,or drosomycin only.Wild-type flies and the mutant flies were then tested for survival after infection with Neurospora crassa fungi.What statement about these data is true? 
A) No wild-type fruit flies die after being infected by the fungi.
B) Drosomycin protects fruit flies from N.crassi infections to a higher degree than does defensin.
C) Defensin is effective at preventing fruit fly infection by all fungal species.
D) After two days,approximately 65% of mutant + defensin fruit flies are dead.
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