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Read the given passage and answer the six questions that follow.


Coffee’s genetic make-up is no trivial concern; 10 million tonnes of the crop were grown and sold in 2022–23. The coffee that we drink comes from two species: Coffea Canephora, which is also known as Robusta and Coffea Arabica, known as Arabica. In many cases, beans from the two species are blended to make a brew. But the beans of single species are also roasted and sold. Overall, Arabica beans represent around 56Most genetic variation in living organisms comes from hybridization with other species.


However, this is a relatively rare event for Coffea Arabica because it has more than two copies of each chromosome — a phenomenon called polyploidy. Coffea Canephora has two copies of each chromosome, but Coffea Arabica contains multiple copies. This makes it much more difficult for Arabica to interbreed with other species. As a result, Coffea Arabica’s main source of single nucleotide variation is mutation, which occurs at a steady rate over time. However, the species is also 24 relatively young, having formed as a hybrid of Robusta and Coffea Eugenioides — another coffee species that is not widely cultivated — within the past 50,000 years. From that single plant, which has basically no variation, you create the whole species, and then the variation is only the novel mutations that have occurred since that event.


Despite this, there is substantial variation in the physical characteristics of the Arabica coffee plant, including different flavour profiles in the beans and variations in disease resistance, says emeritus geneticist Juan Medrano at the UC Davis Coffee Center at the University of California, Davis. “We’re always talking about low variability at the DNA level, but there is variability at the structural level, at the chromosomal level, at the level of deletions . . . and insertions,” Medrano says.


Q) Which of the following varieties of coffee is the most sold in the world?

Options

A

Coffea Canephora

B

Coffea Arabica

C

Coffea Eugenioides

D

A blend of Coffea Canephora and Coffea Arabica

Show Answer

Correct Answer :

Option B

Coffea Arabica

Solution :

The correct option is Coffea Arabica.


Step-by-step Explanation:

1. Let us examine the provided passage to find information regarding the sales of different coffee varieties.
2. In the first paragraph of the passage, the text introduces the two main species of coffee that we drink: Coffea Canephora (also known as Robusta) and Coffea Arabica (known as Arabica).
3. The passage explicitly states: "Overall, Arabica beans represent around 56% [of the market/production]". Although the percentage symbol and word "percent" are slightly cut off or typoed as "56Most" in the raw text, it indicates that Arabica beans represent around 56% of the coffee grown and sold.
4. Since Arabica beans account for a majority share (around 56%, which is more than half of the total market), Coffea Arabica is the most sold variety of coffee in the world compared to the other options.
5. Therefore, the correct option is Coffea Arabica.

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