Fungal Control of Insects Quiz

By controlling the insects' behavior and making them do strange things like walking a lot, climbing tall plants, and hanging high up, in order to infect more insects.

To infect more insects and facilitate their own reproduction and spread.

These behaviors help the fungi infect as many insects as possible.

<p>They found that each fungus has its own tricks to control the insects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Each fungus has its own tricks to control the insects' behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To increase the number of hosts they can infect and facilitate their own reproduction and spread.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They physically change the insects' bodies and release chemicals that affect the insects' brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To help the fungi spread their spores.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Spores</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making the insect spread its wings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They release chemicals that affect the insects' brain, making them do strange things.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some fungi have a special relationship with their host, changing the insect's behavior and living together for a while before eventually killing the insect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To help the fungi spread their spores more effectively.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To help the fungi spread their spores.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They physically change the insects' bodies and release chemicals that affect the insects' brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To help them spread and survive alongside their host insects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By redirecting energy from a host organism to their own benefit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By producing their own version of insulin, called 'viral insulin'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Glucose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By producing a molecule called glucose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More than 300 thousand virus species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Glucose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Insulin unlocks cells and lets glucose inside, which is then broken down to release energy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viruses infect one cell at a time and slowly steal energy and other resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A computer simulation was used to identify viral proteins similar to human insulin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Viral insulin injected group, 2) Regular insulin (positive control) injected group, 3) Saline (negative control) injected group.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human insulin was stronger than viral insulin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viral insulin was observed to block an important marker of cancer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of glucose in the mice's blood decreased much more with human insulin over the first 90 minutes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The researchers noticed a decrease in blood glucose for all three groups, despite saline not helping glucose enter cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Viruses need glucose to survive in host cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The researchers used a database with information about viral proteins and ran a computer simulation.</p> Signup and view all the answers