Ants Trivia Questions
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These sterile female ants perform most colony tasks including foraging, nursing, and nest maintenance.
Difficulty: Easy- Queens
- Drones
- Workers
- Pupae
This New World genus of army ants is the most studied, known for their spectacular above-ground raids.
Difficulty: Medium- Eciton
- Dorylus
- Neivamyrmex
- Aenictus
This German researcher discovered that leafcutter ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to protect their fungus gardens from parasites.
Difficulty: Hard- Ulrich Mueller
- Jacobus Boomsma
- Cameron Currie
- Ted Schultz
Male ants whose sole purpose is to mate with queens are called by this term.
Difficulty: Easy- Drones
- Workers
- Soldiers
- Foragers
This theory proposes that eusociality evolved because sisters share 75% of their genes under haplodiploidy.
Difficulty: Medium- Group selection theory
- Inclusive fitness theory
- Kin selection theory
- Multilevel selection theory
This theoretical model uses evolutionary game theory to explain the maintenance of worker sterility despite selection for selfishness.
Difficulty: Hard- Eusociality model
- Inclusive fitness framework
- Altruism equilibrium
- Cooperation theory
Ants communicate primarily through these chemical signals that can mark trails, signal alarm, or identify nestmates.
Difficulty: Easy- Hormones
- Pheromones
- Enzymes
- Proteins
This anatomical structure allows ants to create sounds by rubbing body parts together, often for alarm signals.
Difficulty: Medium- Tymbal
- Resonator
- Stridulatory organ
- Sound chamber
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