Chapter 6 Flashcards
Clone
An organism with identical DNA as another organism
Metabolism
Cell processes storing & releasing energy and building & breaking down
macromolecules
Monomer
Molecular building block
of biological macromolecule
Direct Development
Animals developing directly into a
miniature version of the adult and grow in size from there
Indirect Development
Animals developing through more than one radically different stage
Reason
The memory, processing, and rearranging of
information by an organism
Instinctive Behavior
Think - Instinct
Behavior performed perfectly the very
first time it is tried (vs. learned behavior)
Learned Behavior
Behavior which is performed
imperfectly the first time, but
more perfectly as the organism
repeats it (vs. instinctive behavior)
Habituation
An organism’s lack of response to
experiences it has learned neither
hurts nor helps the organism
Imprinting
Organismal behavior based upon early life experiences of that organism
Conditioned Response
Behavior learned through repeated rewards or punishments
Mental Map
Memory of the environment that an
organism develops so as to move through it
Imitative Learning
Behavior an organism copies from the behavior of another organism