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The farmers have been cultivating a food plant X for over two thousand years and have produced as many as five entirely different looking vegetables A, B, C, D and E from it.
(a) What could the plant X be ?
(b) What are A, B, C, D and E
(c) What is the process of evolution involved in this example known as ?

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(a) Wild cabbage (b) Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kohlrabi and Kale (c) Artificial selection
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