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Ecologist Angela Yu contends that mature trees within forest communities actively manage resource distribution via underground mycorrhizal fungal networks. According to Yu’s research, these dominant "mother trees" can identify their own offspring and preferentially channel vital carbon, nitrogen, and defense signals to genetically related saplings, thereby ensuring the survival of their kin in highly competitive, resource-scarce environments.
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In contrast, evolutionary biologist Marcus Chen argues that while resource transfer through mycorrhizal networks is well-documented, it should not be characterized as a directed act of parental altruism. Chen’s models demonstrate that the mycorrhizal fungi, rather than the host trees, control resource routing. Fungi allocate nutrients to diverse tree hosts to optimize the overall stability and carbon-sink capacity of the fungal network itself, irrespective of the trees' genetic relatedness.
Based on the passages, is the statement that Chen would disagree with Yu's claim that mycorrhizal resource allocation is driven by the trees' genetic relationships true or false?
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