Which of the following statements about plant speciation and hybridization is false?
A) Plant biologists estimate that 80% of all living plant species are descended from ancestors that formed by polyploid speciation.
B) Bread wheat is the ancestral diploid wheat plant.
C) Modern plant geneticists use chemicals to induce meiotic and mitotic errors to try to create new hybrid plants with special qualities.
D) Bread wheat grown widely today is the result of several hybridization events.
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