A moth learns to visit nectar-filled white flowers, and the good food source allows it to lay more eggs and have more surviving offspring than other moths in the area. Which of the following can you conclude?

a. This moth has white coloration

b. This moth has high fitness

c. The ability to find nectar-filled flowers is heritable

d. This moth has evolved.

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Vincent Mosley

Biology

1 November, 07:37

A moth learns to visit nectar-filled white flowers, and the good food source allows it to lay more eggs and have more surviving offspring than other moths in the area. Which of the following can you conclude?

a. This moth has white coloration

b. This moth has high fitness

c. The ability to find nectar-filled flowers is heritable

d. This moth has evolved.

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Trevor Herring · Answer 1

Answer: This moth has high fitness.

Explanation:

A moth learns to visit nectar - filled white flowers. This serves a good source of energy for them and allows the moth to lay more eggs.

The eggs produces fertile offspring which has a good survival rate when it is compared with the rest of the moths surviving in the same region.

The fitness of moth is more as compared to that of the other moths that tend to have less fertile offspring.

Hence, from the following condition it can be said that the moth feeding n white flower is the fittest.