Starting from the wild mustard Brassica oleracea, breeders have created the strains known asBrussel sprouts, broccoli, kale, and cabbage. Which of the following statements is supported bythis observation? BL2 (71%)
A) In this species, there is enough heritable variation to create a variety of features.
B) Heritable variation is low-otherwise the wild strain would have different characteristics.
C) Natural selection has not occurred very frequently in the wild populations.
D) In this species, most of the variation present is due to differences in soil, nutrition, amount
of sunlight, or other aspects of the environment.