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The plant flowers only at night, and its flowers are white and strongly scented. Botanists infer from these features that it is pollinated by ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. night-flying insects that find flowers by scent and pale colour.Correct
- B. bees that fly by day.
- C. the wind.
- D. hummingbirds attracted to red.
Answer: A. night-flying insects that find flowers by scent and pale colour.
Night, white, scented: moths, not bees.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. bees that fly by day.
- Bees would not find night flowers.
- C. the wind.
- Wind-pollinated plants do not need scent or colour.
- D. hummingbirds attracted to red.
- The flowers are white and open at night.
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