Before you take our quiz on caterpillars vs. plants, make sure you check out our
Periodic Graphic for some helpful hints.
Which of the following is not a class of compounds that plants produce to deter caterpillars?
What happens to glucosinolates in plants when most caterpillars digest them?
Which type of caterpillars turn glucosinolates in plant leaves into harmless nitriles?
Monarch butterfly caterpillars sequester cardiac glycosides from which plant?
Why are Monarch butterfly caterpillars immune to the effects of cardiac glycosides?
What type of toxic compounds do cinnabar moth caterpillars obtain from ragwort?
How do the caterpillars of the tomato fruitworm moth limit some plants’ production of toxic compounds?
Before you take our quiz on caterpillars vs. plants, make sure you check out our Periodic Graphic for some helpful hints.
Which of the following is not a class of compounds that plants produce to deter caterpillars?
• Alkaloids
• Batrachotoxins
• Glucosinolates
• Glycosides
What happens to glucosinolates in plants when most caterpillars digest them?
• They inhibit protein-digesting enzymes.
• They attract caterpillar predators.
• They make caterpillars eat other caterpillars.
Which type of caterpillars turn glucosinolates in plant leaves into harmless nitriles?
• Cabbage white butterfly caterpillars
• Cinnabar moth caterpillars
• Monarch butterfly caterpillars
• Tomato fruitworm moth caterpillars
Monarch butterfly caterpillars sequester cardiac glycosides from which plant?
• Cabbage
• Broccoli
• Milkweed
• Ragwort
Why are monarch butterfly caterpillars immune to the effects of cardiac glycosides?
• They have beneficial genetic mutations.
• They also produce cardiac glycosides.
• They have enzymes that break down the compounds.
• Bacteria in their digestive system break down the compounds.
What type of toxic compounds do cinnabar moth caterpillars obtain from ragwort?
• Alkaloids
• Glucosinolates
• Glycosides
• Oxalates
How do the caterpillars of the tomato fruitworm moth limit some plants’ production of toxic compounds?
• They secrete suppressive enzymes in their saliva.
• They secrete inhibitive hormones.
• They eat only selected parts of the plant.
• All the above.
