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Breeding in most organisms occurs during a part of the year only, and so a reliable cue is needed to trigger breeding behaviour.
Breeding in most organisms occurs during a part of the year only, and so a reliable cue is needed to trigger breeding behaviour.
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2015-01-31
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Breeding in most organisms occurs during a part of the year only, and so a reliable cue is needed to trigger breeding behaviour. Day length is an excellent cue, because it provides a perfectly predictable pattern of change within a year. In the temperate zone in spring, temperatures fluctuate greatly from day to day, but day length increases steadily by a predictable amount. The seasonal impact of day length on physiological responses is called photoperiodism, and the amount of experimental evidence for this phenomenon is considerable. For example, some species of birds’ breeding can be induced even in midwinter simply by increasing day length artificially(Wolfson 1964). Other examples of photoperiodism occur in plants. A short-day plant flowers when the day is less than a certain critical length. A long-day plant flowers after a certain critical day length is exceeded. In both cases the critical day length differs from species to species. Plants which flower after a period of vegetative growth, regardless of photoperiod, are known as day-neutral plants.
Breeding seasons in animals such as birds have evolved to occupy the part of the year in which offspring have the greatest chances of survival. Before the breeding season begins, food reserves must be built up to support the energy cost of reproduction, and to provide for young birds both when they are in the nest and after fledging. Thus many temperate-zone birds use the increased day lengths in spring as a cue to begin the nesting cycle, because this is a point when adequate food resources will be assured.
The adaptive significance of photoperiodism in plane is also clear. Short-day plane that flower in spring in the temperate zone are adapted to maximising seedling growth during the growing season. Long-day plants are adapted for situations that require fertilization by insects, or a long period of seed ripening. Short-day plane that flower in the autumn in the temperate zone are able to build up food reserves over the growing season and over winter as seeds. Day-neutral plane have an evolutionary advantage when the connection between the favourable period for reproduction and day length is much less certain. For example, desert annuals germinate, flower and seed whenever suitable rainfall occurs, regardless of the day length.
The breeding season of some plants can be delayed to extraordinary lengths. Bamboos are perennial grasses that remain in a vegetative state for many years and then suddenly flower, fruit and die(Evans 1976). Every bamboo of the species Chusquea abietifolio on the island of Jamaica flowered, set seed and died during 1884. The next generation of bamboo flowered and died between 1916 and 1918, which suggests a vegetative cycle of about 31 years. The climatic trigger for this flowering cycle is not-yet known, but the adaptive significance is clear. The simultaneous production of masses of bamboo seeds(in some cases lying 12 to 15 centimetres deep on the ground)is more than all the seed-eating animals can cope with at the time, so that some seeds escape being eaten and grow up to form the next generation(Evans 1976).
Which of the followings is an example of the plants whose breeding season can be delayed for a very long time?
选项
A、Shade-tolerant plants.
B、Bamboos.
C、Day-neutral plants.
D、Desert annuals.
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据breeding season、delayed定位到最后一段The breedingseason of some plants can be delayed to extraordinary lengths.Bamboos are perennialgrasses that remain in a vegetative state for many years and then suddenly flower,fruitand die.“一些植物的生殖期会拖得特别长。竹子是多年生植物,在很多年的时间里都保持生长状态,然后突然开花、结果、死亡。”所以答案选B。
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