This chapter focuses on ecological principles of plant defenses and insect adaptations to these defenses. Insects either are generalists, often deterred by plant chemical defense compounds, or they are specialists that are attracted to the defense compound. The questions in the chapter focus on ecology and evolution. Using a process of guided inquiry, students design their own experiment to test the effects of a bitter gene in cucumbers on a population of cucumber beetles.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB199XT_3