The desert-dwelling yucca moth lays its eggs in the blossoms of the yucca plant and yucca seeds provide food for its larvae.The yucca plant depends on this moth for pollination.The two organisms are completely dependent on each other.In Great Britain, there are no yucca moths, and the yucca flowers produce no seeds.This highly specialized interaction likely evolved only in the desert environment because the two species
A) exploited the best available resources in a high-diversity environment.
B) were not able to withstand the harsh environment of the British Isles.
C) were not compatible in Great Britain because the yucca did not produce seeds.
D) became interdependent because both could reliably be found even in the stressful desert environment.
E) were the only species available that provided the right nutrition and the right method of pollination required by the other.
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