Answer:
d) It is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.
Explanation:
This form of behavior raises the fitness of all the species at the expenses of each member.
Each member of the species performs altruistic behavior towards the queen and her progenies as it assist in creating of her nest to increase their generation numbers. Take for example, The workers do more of nurturing of the queen offspring instead of laying their own eggs. This altruistic behavior of workers promotes the further population of their species at the expense of them producing their own offsprings.
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Here is the complete question:
Some species of wasps are social. The queen starts a colony from scratch each spring. She builds a small nest, and lays and raises a group of female workers. The workers enlarge the nest while the queen continues to lay eggs. Unfertilized eggs become males that mate with newly hatched females. All of the wasps except the newly fertilized females die by the summer.
Which best describes this behavior?
a)It is beneficial only to the males that do not fertilize eggs.
b)It is beneficial only to the female workers that are not fertilized.
c)It is beneficial to each one of the individual colony members.
d)It is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.
Answer:
b. help retain moisture in terrestrial habitats
Explanation:
Arthropods such as cockroach, centipedes, spiders, crab are the members of the largest phylum Arthropoda. These are animals with paired jointed legs and their body is covered with an exoskeleton made of chitin. They live in diversified habitat and exoskeleton helps to retain moisture in theterrestrial habitats.
Similarly mollusks such as sepia, snail are soft bodied animal whose body is covered with calcareous shell as a protection and to retain moisture while living on land.
