Astudent notices that when bananas are kept near other fruits, the other fruits ripen faster. she wonders what causes the other fruits to ripen more quickly and thinks that bananas must have an influence on the ripening process. she decides to perform an experiment. she gathers bananas and apples and places an apple by itself at location a and an apple next to a banana at location b. she then waits for five days and records the how ripe each apple is. what would be the next step in this experiment? a. construct a hypothesis and record data b. make observations and draw a conclusion c. ask questions and construct a hypothesis d. analyze the results and make a conclusion

Monarch butterflies have brightly colored orange wings with black patterns on them, making them easily visible to birds that eat butterflies and moths, yet birds rarely eat the monarchs. likewise, the monarch caterpillars are brightly striped yellow and white and black, and they also are rarely eaten by birds, although some wasps will attack them and feed them to their young. what can be inferred from these observations? monarchs must threaten and attack birds, but not wasps. monarchs have a way of discouraging bird predation that does not involve hiding. monarchs’ wings are so colorful that most birds must find them difficult to eat. monarchs lay more eggs than other less conspicuous butterflies.