Biology · Oct / Nov 2017 · Paper 22 · Question 4

Fig. 4.1 shows the relationships between a number of organisms living together in a South American rainforest. nectar from an orchid gives male bumble bees the necessary scent to attract females the bumble bee is the only insect strong enough to push past the coiled petal and reach the nectar coiled petal flower of Brazil nut tree nut collectors harvest and sell the nuts fruit of the Brazil nut tree with an extremely hard pericarp agouti – the only animal capable of opening the fruit. It stores nuts (seeds) by burying them, but often then forgets about them. not to scale seeds (nuts) inside fruit jaguar feeds on agoutis Brazil nut tree grows only as an uncultivated plant in the Amazon rainforest anthers orchid bumble bee Fig. 4.1

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