Polyploidy can lead to very rapid speciation in plants because
A) polyploidy increases the amount of gene flow between polyploid plants and nonpolyploid plants.
B) the DNA sequences of essential genes are altered to such a degree that the polyploid plant can no longer mate with the original species.
C) the gametes of polyploid plants have too many chromosomes and cannot fuse to the gametes of the original species.
D) when a plant becomes polyploid, it often loses the ability to make gametes of any type.
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