C. “According to the USDA, fungi also play an essential role in creating and maintaining healthy soil that supports the growth of healthy plants.” is the correct answer.
Explanation:
The whole text of the speech explains how fungi and specializing fungi are actually helpful to the environment, providing food for plants by turning things that are hard to digest into food. The choice C has a specific excerpt from the speech, which means that if someone where to say this in a speech aloud, then this would be on the notecard that they read from.
