Which developmental risk increases in lepidopteran pupae when juvenile hormone suppresses imaginal disc signaling?

💡 Explanation

When juvenile hormone levels remain high during pupation, it interferes with imaginal disc's response to normal patterning signals because juvenile hormone blocks the transcription factors necessary for complete metamorphosis, leading to disrupted developmental gene expression in the imaginal discs, resulting in switched segment identities. Therefore, homeosis result, rather than other outcomes which are driven by mutation, timing errors or programmed cell death.

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