Given below are two statements:
Statement I: If the female bee's colour patterns change even slightly for any reason during evolution, pollination success will be reduced unless the orchid flower co-evolves to maintain the resemblance of its petal to the female bee.
Statement II: The evolutions of the flower and its pollinator species are tightly linked with one another like in many species of fig trees, there is a tight one-to-one relationship with the pollinator species of wasp.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
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If the female bee's colour patterns change even slightly for any reason during evolution, pollination success will be reduced unless the orchid flower co-evolves to maintain the resemblance of its petal to the female bee. The evolutions of the flower and its pollinator species are tightly linked with one another like in many species of fig trees, there is a tight one-to-one relationship with the pollinator species of wasp.
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