Camoflauge, Mimicry and Imperfect Adaption

Question 1

Henry Walter Bates

Answer 1

● Amazon Rainforest
● Collected 14,712 species, 8,000 were new
● Butterflies of Ega
○ 550 species
● Batesian Mimicry: non poisonous species mimicking poisonous species

Question 2

Batesian Mimicry

Answer 2

non-poisonous species mimicking poisonous species

Question 3

Imperfect Adaption

Answer 3

Laryngeal Nerve

Question 4

Evolution

Answer 4

tinkering

Question 5

Camouflage and Mimicry

Answer 5

Please see slides

Question 6

Why is tinkering a good analogy for natural selection?

Answer 6

evolution can only work with what already exists, it can’t spontaneously conjure up new body parts

Question 7

Homologous characters

Answer 7

are constructed with same body parts (i.e. bones), but have been adapted to serve very different functions. Homologous characters reflect shared ancestry!

Question 8

What do assassin bugs do?

Answer 8

Assassin bugs prey on termites. They are born “naked”, with sticky hairs all over them, but visit a termite nest and pick up pieces of nest material and attach it to themselves. On a leaf, they don’t look camouflaged, but on the nest, they look and smell just like the nest.

Question 9

Exaptation

Answer 9

Functional shift, thoracic segments used for thermoregulation in insects have been repurposed for flight in some species