Q10

[AllyMaeBell]

10. (D)
Question Type: Inference (26-29, 59-64)
This question requires us to locate Gould’s research in both passages and determine what baby step can logically be taken from that research. In passage A, the author uses Gould’s research to support the claim that odor is not necessary to bees’ communication since bees can dispatch other bees to sites that have not actually been visited, and in passage B, Gould’s research is used to indicate that bees do not just follow any command, but sometimes ignore foragers’ instructions. Answer choice (D) lists both of these scenarios.

(A) Is an unsupported interpretation. Foragers are sometimes disregarded, but it has nothing to do with olfactory information.
(B) Contradicted interpretation; the last paragraph of passage B gives a specific example of a honeybee attempting to dispatch nestmates to a site with no pollinating flowers
(C) Out of scope. There is no mention of the experience or lackthereof of forager honeybees.
(D) Unsupported interpretation. There is not mention of a "trail from the food source to the honeybee nest."

[mimimimi]

I was hesitant to pick (D) because I thought we were supposed to find the experiment result that is supported by both passages - I was trapped by the comparative reading mindset.