Question

Bees use nectar from the flowers of plants as food. As they collect nectar, dustlike pollen grains stick to their body. When they move from flower to flower, pollen is transferred to other flowers. The pollen from other flowers helps the plant make seeds. Which challenge of life does the bee help the plant meet?
a. acquiring energy
b. reproduction
c. maintaining its structure
d. homeostasis

Answer 1

B. reproduction, by collecting the pollen the bees r also spreading the pollen

Answer 2

Reproduction is the challenge of life that the bees help the plant to meet. The correct option in regards to the given question is option "b". This process is also known as mutualism. In this case both the flowers and the bees are mutually helping each other. The bees get the food from the nectar produced by the flowers and in turn the bees help the species of plants to reproduce. This is a natural way of being beneficial to one another.