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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 The Fungus Growers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of hierarchy does Wilson use to describe an ant colony?
(a) Functional hierarchy.
(b) Veiled hierarchy.
(c) Subliminal hierarchy.
(d) Dense hierarchy.

2. How many life cycle stages do all ant colonies go through?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

3. How long is the desert ant's life expectancy?
(a) 26 days.
(b) 36 days.
(c) 6 days.
(d) 16 days.

4. How many levels of genealogical relationships do sweat bees have with one another?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

5. What species of ant carries large quantities of freshly cut vegetation into underground nests as deep as six meters?
(a) Pachycondyla.
(b) Solenopsis Invicta.
(c) Cretomyrma.
(d) Acromyrmex.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the heads of major workers compare to the heads of minor workers?

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

3. What are repletes concerned with?

4. Which of the following is NOT a ways Wilson describes foreign ants being treated?

5. During what era did Crozier argue that scientists should not "discard kin selection in favor of parental manipulation" altering the way most scientists deal with kin selection?

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