Bio 115 Test 2

Question 1

Sign Stimulus

Answer 1

the trigger for the behavior

Question 2

Innate Releasing Mechanism

Answer 2

the part of the organism that is perceiving the stimulus and initiating a response

Question 3

Fixed Action Pattern

Answer 3

The response behavior that always happens as a result of the sign stimulus

Question 4

Learned Behavior

Answer 4

acquired through experience and dependent upon memory

Question 5

Proximate Causation

Answer 5

behavior is the (sign) stimulus that triggered the behavior

Question 6

Ultimate Causation

Answer 6

big evolutionary advantage to the behavior- Live longer and have more kids

Question 7

Phototaxis

Answer 7

Movement in response to light

Question 8

Mechanotaxis

Answer 8

Movement in response to physical contact

Question 9

Chemoresponse

Answer 9

chemical response to physical contact or damage

Question 10

Learning

Answer 10

Adjusting a response after exposure to stimulus

Question 11

Intelligence

Answer 11

Ability to learn and to solve problems/difficulty

Question 12

Insight

Answer 12

Ability to visualize a problem and its solution

Question 13

Operant Conditioning

Answer 13

Trial and Error learning

Question 14

Sensitive Phase

Answer 14

an inherent timetable for learning that is determined by genes in animals

Question 15

Critical Period

Answer 15

When learning is at its best

Question 16

Intraspecific Communication

Answer 16

Communication within a single species

Question 17

Interspecific Communication

Answer 17

Communication between species

Question 18

The Functions of Communication

Answer 18

Warning to a predator, bright coloring
Warning to others, alarm
Advice to others, food, social position
Advertisement of reproductive condition, courtship
Territorial, get out of my space

Question 19

Encoding Properties of Auditory Communication

Answer 19

Pitch
Modulation
Pattern

Question 20

Alarm Calls

Answer 20

inform about predators and are sent between birds

Question 21

Reciprocal Behavior

Answer 21

Birds of different species will corporate by making alarm calls

Question 22

Pheromones

Answer 22

odor molecules used for communication

Question 23

Ritualized aggression displays are used in place of physical confrontation, thus saving individuals from the risk of a life threatening injury. This is why few male deer or bighorn sheep die during and just after the mating season. T/F

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Plants evolved from photosynthetic green algae. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria are the ancestor organisms of all unicellular green algae. T/F

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Place the following adaptations in the order in which they evolved from oldest to most recent.
1- spores 2- aerobic metabolism 3- flowers 4- cones 5- vascular system

Answer 25

2, 1, 5, 4, 3

Question 26

What is the correct order for the following adaptations from oldest to most recent?
1- calcified (bony) jaws 2- vertebrae around notochord 3- calcified eggshell 4- aerobic metabolism 5- sexual reproduction

Answer 26

4, 5, 2, 1, 3

Question 27

Class Reptilia contains the highest total number of species (extinct + living) of the terrestrial vertebrates. What adaptation(s) has/have allowed them to be so successful? A) amniotic egg with shell B) skin made of scales C) calcified (bony) vertebrae D) Both (A) and (B) E) All of these

Answer 27

D) Both (A) and (B)

Question 28

Place the following organisms in order in which they evolved from oldest to most recent.
1- soft-bodied animals 2- Eucarya 3- Archaea 4- wingless hexapod 5- insects

Answer 28

3, 2, 1, 4, 5

Question 29

Three components of Behavior

Answer 29

Sign Stimulus
Innate Releasing Mechanism
Fixed Action Pattern

Question 30

Stereotyped

Answer 30

a specific stimulus will always result in the same behavior.

Question 31

Instinctive Behavior

Answer 31

hardwired behavior

Question 32

Behavior

Answer 32

responding to a stimulus, can be hard-wired into the genetic code or learned

Question 33

Etiology

Answer 33

the scientific study of behavior