Worth more than Gold

Which sentence from the  passage BEST supports the idea that growing mono-cultures can be risky.

• "American farmers grow wheat, soybeans, corn, and other foodstuffs"
• "Every cornstalk in the cornfield is exactly like its neighbors, with the same DNA"
• "If one cornstalk in the field can be killed like its neighbors, with the same DNA."
• "They look in gene banks for strain of wheat that fights that past well.

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The following question has two parts. First answer part A.  Then, answer part B.  What is the main idea of : Worth More than gold?

• Gene banks protect the world's food supply.  
• People have studied DNA for hundreds of years.
• Mono-cultures are often destroyed by pests.
• The Irish potato famine began in 1845.

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Which sentence from the article BEST supports the answer to part A.

• "That sentence means it has the same instructions for building itself"
• :If molecules are in trouble, what's in those vaults is worth more than gold"
• "If you want molecules that will fight potato fungus, you need the genes for making those molecules."
• "Becasue all teh potatoes in Ireland at the time were similar, most of the potato crop died"

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