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John enjoys experimenting with color changing lizards. He places a green lizard on a brown background and a brown lizard on a green background. John knows the green lizard should turn brown and the brown lizard should turn green. Neither lizard changes color. What may have caused John's results?

A. Other factors may be affecting the color change, like fear or temperature.
B. The lizards had to choose to move to the new background for the effect to take place.
C. More time should be allotted to allow for the color change to take place.
D. The backgrounds may have been the wrong shade of color for these specific lizards.

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Other factors may be affecting the color change, like fear or temperature
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Answer: Option A

Step-by-step explanation:

There are several physiological factors affecting the behavior of an organism, which can change the normal behavior of the organism.

When the lizard was placed in the a box having different colored background then the lizards did not changed colored because they might have got scared, or the temperature suitable for the color change might not be available.

There can be any of the above stated factors responsible for not changing the body color of lizard.

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