PrepTest 138, Section 1, Question 9
The characteristic smell or taste of a plant,(453 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(20 more words not shown)
- Ato start eating(3 more words not shown)
- Bto avoid plants(7 more words not shown)
- Cto increase their(3 more words not shown)
- Dto pollinate other(3 more words not shown)
- Eto avoid contact(7 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
The third paragraph gives insects two broad options: change their food or overcome the plant's defenses. Overcoming a defense can involve detoxifying a chemical or safely storing it, but the other option is much simpler: eat something else. We need one response actually mentioned, not a biologically plausible new suggestion.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
The text explicitly says insects must change their diet or develop adaptations that overcome plant protections (paragraph 3). Starting to eat something else is the first option in that sentence.
- B
Identification by taste and smell is discussed, but avoidance based on leaf or flower structure is not. Chemical cues and physical shape are different features.
- C
Faster reproduction is not identified as an insect's response to a plant's defense.
- D
Pollination appears as a benefit insects can provide plants, not as the adaptation described here for an insect facing a defended food source.
- E
No strategy of touching only safe parts of the same plant is described. That would be a different response from switching foods or coping with a harmful substance.
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