You Continue Your Experiments by Taking One of the Trees

Multiple Choice

You continue your experiments by taking one of the trees in the canopy and removing all of the ants. If the ants and aphids are in a mutualistic relationship that strongly benefits them both, you expect the aphid population will _____ in response to the lack of ants.

A) increase in size
B) stay the same size
C) decrease in size
D) change species composition
E) change in demographics (age distribution)