|Question 12Verbal

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Drosophila (fruit flies) have generation times of 10-12 days, so seasonal changes in humidity and other environmental conditions can drive seasonal fluctuations in chromosome rearrangements in species such as D. persimilis and D. mediopunctata. Drosophila body size (for which wing centroid size serves as a proxy measure) correlates with life span. Banu Banu Şebnem Önder and Cansu Fidan Aksoy measured the wing sizes of members of a D. melanogaster population in Yeşilöz, Turkey, that were collected monthly between May and October over three years. Their research suggests that Drosophila collected in relatively warmer months should tend to have a longer life span, as is illustrated by the finding that       
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the assertion?
the average monthly low temperature was higher in June than in May.
A
the average male wing centroid size was larger in July than in October.
B
the average female wing centroid size was 2.02 mm in July but was 2.31 mm in June.
C
the average female wing centroid size was consistently larger than the average male wing centroid size in all four months in the table.
D