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Which one the following group of plants was domesticated in the new world and introduced into the old world?
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Which one the following group of plants was domesticated in the new world and introduced into the old world?
2019Sci & Tech
ATobacco, cocoa, and rubber
BTobacco, cotton and rubber
CCotton, coffee and sugarcane
DRubber, coffee and wheat
Explanation
In the Columbian Exchange, plants such as cocoa and tobacco were brought from the New World to the Old World. This option of tobacco, cocoa, and rubber is the correct group of plants that were domesticated in the New World and introduced into the Old World.