6 Flashcards
Tetrodotoxin?
An extremely toxic substance
Tetrodotoxin does what physiologically?
It blocks the Sodium ion-gated channel in neurons.
Best examples of coevolution arms race is?
A super super linear correlation between toxicity in one organism and toxicity resistance in another.
!!!For each gene causing resistance in a host, there is a?
Flor’s gene for gene model?
Plant resistance will occur only when a plant possesses a dominant resistance gene (R) when the pathogen expresses the complementary dominant avirulence gene (avr)
Plant resistance gene (R) are _____ rich.
Leucine
Lock (plant) should evolve to detect the key, key(disease), should?
evolve to not be detected by the lock.
Batesian mimicry?
Occurs when an edible mimic resembles an unpalatable or poisonous model. Only the mimic benefits
In order for the mimicry to work, the model must be ____ in the wild?
Dominant
Mullerian mimicry?
When distasteful or poisonous organisms resemble each other to reduce cost of associative learning.