Living things want to maintain , or stable conditions in their body. They do this by using feedback. They gather information through , like sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch. These senses respond to a , or environmental message. This information travels through specialized cells called . The is the organ responsible for processing sensory information. We use these messages to control our response to stimuli called . Those may be stored in our brain as to help us make choices.

Some species of wasps are social. the queen starts a colony from scratch each spring. she builds a small nest, and lays and raises a group of female workers. the workers enlarge the nest while the queen continues to lay eggs. unfertilized eggs become males that mate with newly hatched females. all of the wasps except the newly fertilized females die by the summer. which best describes this behavior? a)it is beneficial only to the males that do not fertilize eggs. b)it is beneficial only to the female workers that are not fertilized. c)it is beneficial to each one of the individual colony members. d)it is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.