Question

crickets and energy
have you ever wondered what crickets eat and how it affects them? scientists did an experiment to find out how the amount of sugar in a cricket’s food changes how well they can reproduce.
sugar is an energy storage molecule. crickets (and all living things) need energy to move, avoid predators, and reproduce. reproduction in crickets happens when females lay eggs.
in the experiment, scientists set up two groups of crickets:

• group a: crickets that ate food low in sugar
• group b: crickets that ate food high in sugar

after four hours, the scientists counted the eggs.

• group a (low sugar) laid 10 eggs
• group b (high sugar) laid 50 eggs

this experiment shows that crickets with more sugar in their food had more energy to reproduce. the more energy storage molecules organisms have, the more they can do important life processes—like moving and making the next generation.
questions

1. reading check

what type of molecule gives crickets energy?

Explanation:

From the text, it says "Sugar is an energy storage molecule. Crickets (and all living things) need energy to move, avoid predators, and reproduce." So the molecule that gives crickets energy is sugar.

Answer:

Sugar