Which of the Following Has Provided the Strongest Evidence to Date

question 51

Multiple Choice

Which of the following has provided the strongest evidence to date that pigeons use magnetic cues for orientation?

• A) The detection and description of a neurophysiological magnetic transducer
• B) Observations that orienting behavior takes place even on cloudy days
• C) Evidence that the attachment of small magnets disrupts pigeons' homing behavior
• D) Observations of pigeons gaining latitude information from magnetic field lines
• E) The discovery of magnetite particles in the cells of pigeons

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a set of data when it is ordered from least to greatest, or the point at which half the data values are above and half are below.

Median

The middle value in a set of ordered data, or the average of the two middle values when the set has an even number of observations.

Absolute Frequency

The count of occurrences or instances of a particular event or property in a dataset.

Ratio

A quantitative relationship between two numbers showing how many times the first number contains the second.