In recent decades rainforests throughout the world have been cut down for various reasons. in some cases the wood has been used; in others, the land. the deforestation of earth's rainforests has resulted in a) the rapid extinction of many species on earth. b) primary succession and evolution of new habitats. reactivate c) habitat destruction and the overall decrease in biodiversity. d) secondary succession and the development of new, successful ecosystems.

Female luna moths (actias luna) attract males by emitting chemical signals that spread through the air. a male hundreds of meters away can detect these molecules and fly toward their source. the sensory organs responsible for this behavior are the comblike antennae visible in the photograph shown here. each filament of an antenna is equipped with thousands of receptor cells that detect the sex attractant. based on what you learned in this chapter, propose a hypothesis to account for the ability of the male moth to detect a specific molecule in the presence of many other molecules in the air. what predictions does your hypothesis make? design an experiment to test one of these predictions.