Consider the common vegetables cabbage, kale, broccoli, etc. in relation
to the populations of their ancestors still living in the wild. If you
sampled these wild populations, what would you expect to find with
respect to sclerenchyma tissue?
A. The vegetables in the grocery store would have more sclerenchyma
cells and cells with heavier walls than the wild varieties that blow
wild and free in the hinterland.
B. The vegetables in the grocery store would have fewer sclerenchyma
cells and the sclerenchyma cells that did exist would have much thinner
cell walls than the wild varieties.
C. The wild varieties would have the same density and composition of sclerenchyma as their cousins in the grocery store.
D. The wild varieties would have fewer sclerenchyma cells, compared to
their city cousins, to encourage herbivory, which in turn, would promote
seed distribution