13) When thinking about the previous question about the beet…
13) When thinking about the previous question about the beetle biological control agents, pick one of your three hypothetical mechanisms of olfaction and design a series of experimental tests to determine whether your proposed mechanism is important or not. Please make sure to properly describe your experiments including the hypothesis tested, approach, and predictions. I would like you to use both the newly derived mutant line that cannot smell host plants even though they can smell pheromones and the old colony of beetles that can smell host plants to test this hypothesis. Furthermore, I wish you to explicitly use RNAi as one tool in these experiments and the Gal4/UAS system as another tool in this series of hypothesis tests. Make sure to also include specific predictions and proper controls. (15 pts)