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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 Caste and Division of Labor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take a foreign ant to produce a new colony odor?
(a) 40 days.
(b) 10 days.
(c) 5 days.
(d) 20 days.

2. How many categories of ant communication are there?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

3. Which of the following procedures is NOT altered when an individual undergoes sociogenesis?
(a) Behavior.
(b) Sexual fertility.
(c) Physical location.
(d) Caste.

4. What are gamergates?
(a) Sterile female ants.
(b) Female larvae.
(c) Fertile female ants.
(d) All young female ants.

5. Which of the following was the first scientist to discuss kin selection in ants?
(a) Lin.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Hamilton.
(d) Michener.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ants are contained in each hectare of soil in the Amazonian rainforest?

2. Which of the following terms expresses the ideal of group production with the disregard of individual needs?

3. What is considered the final stage of a mature ant colony?

4. Which of the following is NOT a category that authors Holldobler and Wilson claim to be extremely complex in ant colonies?

5. In the woodlands of New England, ants move as much soil as what other insect?

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