Many mushrooms are extremely colorful. One hypothesis is that the...

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Many mushrooms are extremely colorful. One hypothesis is that the colors serve as a warning to prevent animals from eating mushrooms, much like the bright yellow and black stripes on wasps help to deter potential predators. Design an experiment to test this hypothesis.

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Hello, everyone here. We have a question telling us a researcher paint some white mushrooms bright yellow and then distributes both the white and yellow painted mushrooms to three squirrels. Independently observed that all three squirrels ate only white mushrooms. What can you conclude from this observation? A The squirrels are adapted to eat white mushrooms. This is incorrect. They are just familiar to the white mushrooms. They are adapted to eat white mushrooms. Be the bright yellow color could be acting as a deterrent to squirrels. This is true, and it would be like the bright yellow and black stripes on wasps. The yellow color deters potential predators. See the squirrels do not like yellow color mushrooms. This is just a statement, not a conclusion. So seeds incorrect and D None of the above is incorrect. So our answer here is B The brightly yellow color could be acting as a deterrent to squirrels. Thank you for watching. Bye.

Many mushrooms are extremely colorful. One hypothesis is that the colors serve as a warning to prevent animals from eating mushrooms, much like the bright yellow and black stripes on wasps help to deter potential predators. Design an experiment to test this hypothesis.

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