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Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by bees.

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We could drone on and on about them, but it would be a-pollen.

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Here’s a passage about an experiment performed on the communication of honey bees.

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And here's some pretty graphs, chart thingies...

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And our test question: Which of the following best states the scientists’ hypothesis?

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Here are your potential answers…

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Looks like we’ve been asked to choose which

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of the four possible answers best summarizes the scientists’ hypothesis.

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Let’s take a peek:

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Option A, the waggle dance is a type of mating ritual.

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Found on jdate or bdate maybe.

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Nope, not in this species, but we know a few folks who think it’s great.

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B says “The waggle dance produces some type of airborne chemical signal for other honey bees”

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In fact, that’s precisely what the scientists hypothesized.

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Well, what about C and D?

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“The waggle dance is only done by honeybees”

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and “the waggle dance is only done in the hive”?

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Neither of those were the hypothesis. Not even close to the right answer.

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So there we have it, B’s our answer. B, as in…Wait for it…

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Waaaaait… <whispers> Bees.

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