Campbell Biology in Focus (2nd Edition)
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Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Jane B. Reece
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Chapter 2, Problem 11TYU
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
Female luna moths (Actias luna) attract males by emitting chemical signals that spread through the air. A male hundreds of meters away can detect these molecule and fly toward their source. The sensory organs responsible for this behavior are the tomblike antennae visible in the photograph shown here. Each filament of an antenna is equipped with thousands of receptor cells that detect the sex attractant. (a) Based on what you learned in this chapter, propose a hypothesis to account for the ability of the male moth to detect a specific molecule in the presence of many other molecules in the air. (b) Describe predictions your hypothesis enables you to make. (c) Design an experiment to test one of these predictions.
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Campbell Biology in Focus (2nd Edition)
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