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One of the most important reasons why wild plants should thrive is that they are good sources of:

1. highly nutritive animal feed
2. unsaturated edible oils
3. genes for resistance to disease and pests
4. very rare and highly sought after fruits of medical importance

Correct answer: genes for resistance to disease and pests

Solution

Wild plants are important because they preserve genetic diversity that breeders can use to improve cultivated crops. A major use of that diversity is finding genes for resistance to diseases and pests.

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