Q11

[AllyMaeBell]

11. (D)
Question Type: Inference (8-11, 49-52)
This question requires us to use textual information from both passages to infer something that both authors would agree with. Answer choice (D) does this; both authors give von Frisch credit for "discovering" or "cracking the code" of the honeybee dance as a form of communication.

(A) Unsupported interpretation. Odors are not the reason honeybees will ignore instructions. The only reason we are given that they might ignore instructions is that they avoid sites without pollinating flowers.
(B) Contradicted interpretation; Esch advocated that sound was the vital communicator, while Wenner later discarded this and indicated that odors, not sound, communicated information.
(C) Contradicted interpretation. Passage A does not mention this; passage B says "some species" (37)
(D) Out of scope: There is not mention of the relative experience of forager honeybees.

[vik]

11 D is factually incorrect because it says 'how honeybees communicate.'

Passage A says in line 11 'questions remained about how they communicate.' Frisch did not answer how they communicate in Passage A. He found the pattern in the dance, not the mechanism.

[nflamel69]

hence the word fundamental, it just means it is of great importance. Never said it was sufficient to solve the mystery.

[tara_amber1]

I think what Ally meant to say was that D was the correct answer and mistakenly put D instead of E as the incorrect answer choices.

But the fact that line 11 in Passage A says that "questions still remained regarding the PRECISE mechanism used to transmit that information," is not something we should take to invalidate von Frisch as a contributor to honeybee communication. It just says that dance pattern discovery was the starting point. The last paragraph in passage A elaborates on this by saying that the precise mechanism is sound, combined with the dance elements. So by this interpretation, D is correct in saying that "the work of von Frisch was instrumental in answering fundamental questions about how honeybees communicate."