Animal Lecture Quiz Questions

Question 1

True or False? Bees learn the color of a flower after arrival.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True or False? In finches, sexual imprinting is irreversible if no alternative choice is offered during the entire critical period.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

When the goose was presented with a round object like a baseball near the nest, the goose

Answer 3

got up and pulled it into the nest

Question 4

Which term refers to the Innate and highly recognizable threshold which, when recognized (stimulated), triggers an innate, coordinated pattern of several muscle movements without requiring additional sensory imput?

a) ARM
b) Supernormal stimuli
c) FAP
d) IRM

Answer 4

d) IRM

Question 5

Which of the following refers to the relatively long-term ability of animals to switch their behavioral priorities?

a) Evolution
b) FAP
c) Drive
d) Proximate Action Motivation

Answer 5

c) drive

Question 6

An animal that can understand the signals of another species and then use that ability to take advantage of that species is called what?

Answer 6

code breaker

Question 7

Bees learn landmarks between their nest and the nectar/food source. When is it that they learn those landmarks?

a) as they leave the hive
b) while they are at the flower
c) they learn it from the queen
d) only in the mornings
e) as they leave the flower to head back to hive

Answer 7

e) as they leave the flower to head back to hive

Question 8

When a segment of DNA is expressed (translated), resulting in a behavior you could see, what would you call that behavior?

Answer 8

Phenotype

Question 9

What is it called when the allele at a particular gene locus affects multiple different products (e.g., behaviors)?

Answer 9

Pleiotropy

Question 10

In the inbreeding of the fruit flies in the study, when the homozygous sitters were crossed with the homozygous rovers, and then the F1 generation male was crossed with a F1 generation female. The F1 x F1 cross showed a ____ ratio of rovers to sitters?

Answer 10

3:1

Question 11

True/False? The rovering vs sitting trait in fruit flies is multigenic.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True/False? John and Marsha have a baby girl (epitope). Genetically, the degree of relatedness of Epitope to John or Marsh is 0.25.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

A study shows MZ twins to have a coorelation of r = 0.80 for Traid “A”, but for DZ twins r = 0.70. In this case, for trait “A”, the h (heritibility) estimate, according to Falconer’s formula, would be

Answer 13

h=0.20

Question 14

True or False? One of the critisims of the IQ system of measuring intelligence is that intelligence is too complicated to determined by a single measurement.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True or False? Specific cognitive abilities, with a heritibility estimate of 30-50%, is higher than IQ.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

True or False? When comparing the correlations MZ twins to DZ twins on academic performance, the heritibility estimate was over 85%.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Which of the following has been genetically linked with mental retardation?

Answer 17

PKU

Question 18

True or False? According to the interactive theory of development, the “interactive” part refers to the interaction between that person’s genetic information and their environment.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or False? In lecture 5, Microarray technology was discussed as a way to parts of the gnome that can be transcribed or copied to make identical chromosomes.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

According to the lecture, worker bees go through the certain behaviors at different ages. Which of the choices below most accurately list the sequence?

Answer 20

Cleaning cells > Feeding > Packing Pollen > Foraging

Question 21

True/False? Looking at the bee, microarray studies showed a difference of 5,500 genes being actively transcribed between bees that were feeding and bees that were foraging.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

True/False? When Juvinile Hormone was given to young bees, they would switch from feeding to foraging.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

True or False? When the Corpora allata is removed from young bees, it delays their switching to foraging by no more than 4 days.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Exposure to what material produced by foragers controlls the corpora allata’s production of Juvenile hormone?

Answer 24

Ethyl Oleate

Question 25

The presence of what hormone, when present in the brain at the critical time will cause female rats to exhibit male copulatory behavior?

Answer 25

Testosterone

Question 26

True/false? If one were to have 5 cages, each with male rats of different ages (newborn to elderly), one could take any of those male rats, remove the testes, and it will develope a feminized brain and exhibit female copulatory behavior.

Answer 26

false

Question 27

True/False? Injecting testosteron into an adult female zebra finch will induce it to sing.

Answer 27

False