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Your niece is playing in the backyard and finds a beautiful moth. Being interested in insects, you perform research to find out what kind of moth it is. You determine that it is a luna moth (Actias luna). Similar to other moths, the luna moth moults several times throughout development and ultimately metamorphoses into a mouthless adult. The adult will live for approximately one week with the sole purpose of mating.
-The hormone responsible for inducing moulting in the developing moth is
A)ecdysteroid.
B)thyroid hormone.
C)juvenile hormone.
D)oxytocin.
E)thyroxine

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Ecdysteroid is known to induce moulting in insects, including moths. Thyroid hormone and thyroxine are hormones found in vertebrates and not in insects. Juvenile hormone plays a role in regulating growth and development in insects but is not responsible for inducing moulting. Oxytocin is a mammalian hormone involved in social and reproductive behaviors and not found in insects.

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