SAT Question 113f16da: Answer & Explanation

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Some animals have evolved to physically resemble another animal, plant, or object.
• This is known as mimicry.
• Crab spiders mimic the appearance of flowers.
• This helps crab spiders ambush their prey.
• Katydids mimic the appearance of leaves.
• This helps katydids hide from their predators.

Difficulty:Medium

The student wants to emphasize a difference in how katydids and crab spiders use mimicry. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

Katydids mimic the appearance of flowers, and crab spiders mimic that of leaves.

Katydids and crab spiders are two examples of animals that use mimicry.

Unlike crab spiders, which use mimicry to ambush prey, katydids use mimicry to hide from predators.

Animals that use mimicry have evolved to resemble another animal, plant, or object.

SAT Question 113f16da: Rhetorical Synthesis answer and explanation

Explanation

Why the other choices are wrong