Which consequence results when a juvenile insect fails to produce sufficient ecdysone during molting?

💡 Explanation

When ecdysone levels are insufficient during a molt, the epidermal cells, unresponsive to the normally high hormone concentration, do not initiate the complex processes of cuticle separation and new cuticle synthesis, resulting in incomplete ecdysis and molting failure. Therefore, the insect can not shed its old cuticle, rather than other responses, which depend on appropriate hormone signals.

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