In the early 1900s, California citrus growers sprayed their trees with cyanide gas to kill scale insects. By 1914, some scale insects were surviving the spraying
and eventually the whole population showed resistance to cyanide. Which of the following statements best explains how resistance to cyanide spread in the
scale insect population?
a Parasites infecting the insect population carried the trait from insects with a resistance gone to insects without a resistance gene
Predators put greater selection pressure on insects with a resistance gene than on insects without a resistance gene.
Insects with a resistance gene survived the first cyanide sprayings and passed the gene to their offspring.
Insects without a resistance gene underwent mutation upon contact with the cyanide to acquire resistance

Iwill mark the 05.03 novel/short story analysis worksheet directions use complete sentences to respond to each question about the novel or short story you read independently for this module. when providing quotes from your text, include page numbers in parentheses. example: describe the protagonist of your novel or short story. the protagonist of my novel is a tough, sixteen-year-old girl named delaney who is struggling to raise her little sisters. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. "although she was just sixteen years old, delaney had spent much of them providing for her sisters. she displayed the toughness – and weariness – of someone twice her age." (page 16) title of short story or novel tikki author _rudyard 1. describe the setting of your novel or short story. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. 2. describe the protagonist of your novel or short story. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. 3. discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. if the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do you suspect it will be? explain who is trying to do what. which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed? 4. describe the antagonist from your novel or short story. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. 5. describe an important piece of the backstory from your novel or short story. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. 6. describe an early development in the plot and explain why it is important. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer.