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The Brazil Nut Tree, Bertholletia Excels, Is Native to Tropical

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The Brazil nut tree, Bertholletia excels, is native to tropical rain forests of South America. The agouti (Dasyprocta spp.) , a cat-sized rodent, is the only animal with teeth strong enough to crack the hard wall of Brazil nut fruits. It typically eats some of the seeds, buries others, and leaves still others inside the fruit into which moisture can then enter and allow the remaining seeds to germinate. The agouti is most directly involved in dispersal of which of the following structures?


A) female gametophytes
B) sporophyte embryos
C) sporophyte megaspores
D) female gametes

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