Multiple choice

When a predator bird will come the reddish species will ____________.

Two closely related insect species are there. One is reddish in color and the other is orange. The reddish colored species is non toxic and palatable and the orange colored species is toxic and non palatable.

  1. mimic the orange to escape from the predator

  2. not mimic the orange one as its color is close to the orange color of the other species and can easily escape predator

  3. orange colored species will mimic the red colored species

  4. both will mimic each other

  5. there is no need of mimicry
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Explanation

Here the non toxic palatable reddish colored species is the target of the predator. So, in order to escape from the predator bird it will mimic the toxic non palatable orange species. Thus natural selection has selected the mimicry of orange colored species by the reddish one.

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