In this section, you have short passages. After each passage, you will find some items based on the passage. Read the passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
Passage:
To eat and not be eaten - that’s the imperative of a caterpillar’s existence. The leaf roller reduces its risks of being picked off by predators by silking together a temporary shelter in which to feed and rest. Adopting a different line of defense, the jelly slug extrudes a sticky translucent coating that may foul the mouth-parts of marauding ants. For its part, the aquatic larva, by its watery element, fashions a portable hideout from fragments of aquatic leaves. Cutting a serpentine trail as it feeds on tender young leaves, the minute citrus leaf miner spends its entire larval life inside its host plant, thus keeping its appetizing body safely under wraps.
Which one of the following makes itself unpalatable ?
- ALeaf roller
- BJelly slug
- CAquatic larva
- DLeaf miner
Explanation
The jelly slug's sticky coating 'may foul the mouth-parts of marauding ants,' making the slug unpalatable to attackers. The leaf roller and aquatic larva merely hide in shelters, and the leaf miner hides inside the leaf; they conceal themselves rather than taste bad. Hence (b) is correct.