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Intro topic ·Controlling cyclamen mites using Typhlodromus mites
Reasons 3 and 4 ·Reproductive timing and alternative sources of food
Reason 3: Typhlodromus only reproduces when cyclamen prey is available.
Reason 4: Typhlodromus has other food sources, allowing it to survive when cyclamen mites are scarce.
Supported, because we’re told that T-mites can keep C-mites from reaching “significantly damaging levels.” There can still be C-mites present, but there are not enough of them to be significantly damaging.
b
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Not supported, because we have no reason to think the predatory mite needs to lay eggs just like the C-mites lay eggs. What matters is the synchronicity of the reproduction. We want the predator mite population to go up when the C-mite population goes up. But whether the predators use eggs doesn’t matter.
c
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The author never mentions T-mites’ effectiveness against other kinds of pests besides C-mites.
Not supported, because we don’t know whether strawberry growers use parathion outside of the experiments and observations described in the passage. We’re never told that parathion is typically used on strawberry plants. And even if they do, we don’t know that they use parathion “indiscriminately.” Maybe they do try to be careful about where parathion is sprayed, but sometimes accidentally spray where they don’t want to.
Difficulty
53% of people who answer get this correct
This is a very difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%148
163
75%178
Analysis
Implied
Problem-analysis
Science
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
53%
166
b
12%
161
c
5%
160
d
13%
162
e
17%
163
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