泉州市2014高考英语文章突破一轮训练（21）及答案

　　科普知识型阅读理解(二)

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　　Plants have family values, too, it seems, with new research suggesting they can recognize close relatives in order to work together.

　　An ability to tell family from strangers is well known in animals, allowing them to cooperate and share resources, but plants may possess similar social skills, scientists believe.

　　Susan Dudley and Amanda File of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, report they have demonstrated for the first time that plants can recognize their kin.

　　This suggests that plants, though lacking recognition and memory, are capable of complex social interactions.

　　“Plants have this kind of hidden but complicated social life，” Dudley said.

　　The study found plants from the same species of beach­dwelling wildflower grew aggressively alongside unrelated neighbors but were less competitive when they shared soil with their families.

　　Sea rocket, a North American species, showed stronger and healthier root growth when planted in pots with strangers than when raised with relatives from the same maternal(母系的) family, the study found.

　　This is an example of kin selection, a behavior common in animals in which closely related individuals take a group approach to succeeding in their environment, the researchers said.

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