Английский язык: развитие навыков чтения текстов по специальности для студентов-биологов и экологов (90,00 руб.)

Restore the text (use the words and expressions from the box): indistinguishable, in order to, evolved, parasites, nutrient bits, to match, similar, poisonous, close relationships, coexist, beneficial, a stinger, energy, kangaroos, insects. <...> Acacia trees have … a close relationship with acacia ants, which are aggressive creatures that swarm herbivores that try to eat their host tree. <...> Vines use their ability to climb trees to get closer to the sun, their energy source; yet often a 4 vine covers so much of its host tree that the tree withers. <...> INSECT MASCQUERADE The drone fly looks just like a bee, and the hornet fly resembles a hornet. <...> Neither fly has …, but both use their beelike coloring to fool predators into thinking they do and leaving them alone. <...> Other animals avoid predators or ambush prey by looking like a thorn, a green or dead leaf, lichen, bark, or like poisonous insects. <...> A stick insect is nearly … when it sits on a branch. <...> Ticks are the vector for the disease: Vectors are the transportation taken by the bacteria to get to their next host, in this case humans. <...> Similarly, the fungus residing in an African termite mound exists in a state of mutual benefit with its termite hosts. <...> Fungus-farming termites in Africa cultivate a single strain of fungus in moist chambers 5 within their mounds. <...> The termites feed the fungus chewed wood and grass pulp that would otherwise be indigestible, and the fungus breaks the pulp down and converts it into … that the termites can use. <...> Other species of termites have evolved gut bacteria that help extract nutrients from chewed raw materials, in a manner … to humans. <...> Match the words from the text with their definitions: 1) to replicate 2) mound 3) to emit 4) 5) a) an animal that eats only plants b) a pointed part of an insect, plant or animal that goes through someone’s skin and leaves behind poison c) to make exact copies of themselves (about animals) herbivore stinger (Am., UK-sting) 6) poisonous 7) nutrient 8) intestine 9) pulp 10) host 11) vector d) very harmful and able to cause illness <...>