Explanation for Question 22 From the Reading Section on the 2019 April Sat
For number two, we want to know the main purpose of the passage and 2 like always for these general idea questions, 3 you always want to answer all the other questions first so that you understand 4 the passage a little bit better. So now that you've answered all the other 5 questions and you've come back to this question, 6 let's break down what the passage kind of talks about. 7 So it starts off by introducing the idea that animal species 8 use camouflage to hide from powders, 9 right? Then it transitions supplants. 10 Um, by talking about pigmentation as a vital component of acquiring food, 11 then it says variation and pigmentation, as a means of escaping predation has received 12 little attention after that, 13 it starts talking about Matthew cluster, 14 who did a study on a rare Woodland plant. 15 Here's the scientific name for that? 16 It says the dried brackets might serve a similar 17 purpose as the stripes on a tiger or the gray coloration of the wings 18 of the peppered moth to hide. 19 So now here is that species. 20 Again, they are doing a study on it. 21 It starts talking about it, how they use a large population, 22 um, removed the driver brackets. 23 Then it says they measured the reflectance patterned, 24 and they indeed found that the Bracks functioned as camouflage, 25 making the plant blend in with it with its surroundings. 26 If we keep going, they also experimentally 27 demonstrated that this camouflage actually worked to hide the plant from its predator...