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外国語（組織?器官形成） 次の英文を読み、設問に答えなさい。 Foraging Saharan desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use a mode of dead reckoning known as path integration to monitor their current position relative to the nest and to find their way home. This enables them to return on a direct route, rather than retracing the tortuous outbound journey performed when searching for food items in their flat desert habitat, which is often completely devoid of landmarks.① The path integrator requires two kinds of input information: about directions steered, as obtained via the ant’s celestial compass, and about distance traveled,