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Recently biologists have been interested in a tide-associated periodic behavior displayed by the diatom Hantzschia virgata, a microscopic golden-brown alga that inhabits that portion of a shoreline washed by tides (the intertidal zone). Diatoms of this species, sometimes called “commuter” diatoms, remain burrowed in the sand during high tide, and emerge on the sand surface during the daytime low tide. Just before the sand is inundated by the rising tide, the diatoms burrow again.
Some scientists hypothesize that commuter diatoms know that it is low tide because they sense an environmental change, such as an alteration in temperature or a change in pressure caused by tidal movement.
However, when diatoms are observed under constant conditions in a laboratory, they still display periodic behavior, continuing to burrow on schedule for several weeks. This indicates that commuter diatoms, rather than relying on environmental cues to keep time, possess an internal pacemaker or biological clock that enables them to anticipate periodic changes in the environment. A commuter diatom has an unusually accurate biological clock, a consequence of the unrelenting environmental pressures to which it is subjected; any diatoms that do not burrow before the tide arrives are washed away.


This is not to suggest that the period of this biological clock is immutably fixed.
Biologists have concluded that even though a diatom does not rely on the environment to keep time, environmental factors—including changes in the tide’s hydrostatic pressure, salinity, mechanical agitation, and temperature—can alter the period of its biological clock according to changes in the tidal cycle.
In short, the relation between an organism’s biological clock and its environment is similar to that between a wristwatch and its owner:
the owner cannot make the watch run faster or slower, but can reset the hands.
However, this relation is complicated in intertidal dwellers such as commuter diatoms by the fact that these organisms are exposed to the solar-day cycle as well as to the tidal cycle, and sometimes display both solar-day and tidal periods in a single behavior. Commuter diatoms, for example, emerge only during those low tides that occur during the day.



GWD1-Q27:

According to the passage, the periodic behavior displayed by commuter diatoms under constant laboratory conditions is characterized by which of the following?




A.
Greater unpredictability than the corresponding behavior under natural conditions

B.
A consistent periodic schedule in the short term

C.
No difference over the long term from the corresponding behavior under natural conditions

D.
Initial variability caused by the constant conditions of the laboratory

E.
Greater sensitivity to environmental factors than is the case under natural conditions


答案选B, 但是原文中并没有提及in the short term 阿? 为什么c不对呢?However, when diatoms are observed under constant conditions in a laboratory, they still display periodic behavior, continuing to burrow on schedule for several weeks
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我还是觉得several week是short time,就几周而已嘛~~

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同问啊,我和楼主的思路一样。。。 有没有理解这道题的能给出个合理的解释? 谢啦

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这个题目我也是选的C, 以为 several weeks 应该是 Long term.........

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for several weeks

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