Chapter 8

Question 1

A mating system in which a male and female mate only with one another during a given breeding season

Answer 1

monogamy

Question 2

A mating system in which either males or females have multiple mates during a given breeding season

Answer 2

polygamy

Question 3

A mating system wherein males mate with more than one female per breeding season

Answer 3

polygyny

Question 4

A mating system wherein females mate with more than one male during a given breeding season

Answer 4

polyandry

Question 5

A mating system in which males aggressively guard females that are found in spatial clusters, obtaining sole reproductive access to such harems of females

Answer 5

female defense polygyny

Question 6

Areas in which groups of males set up and defend small, temporary territorial patches and in which they display to females, specifically to attract females to mate with them

Answer 6

lekking

Question 7

A hypothesis that females select among males based on genetic traits in the male that will lead to the production of sons that are attractive to the opposite sex

Answer 7

sexy-son hypothesis

Question 8

A type of mating system in which both polyandry and polygyny are occuring

Answer 8

promiscuity

Question 9

A mating system wherein several males form pair bonds with several females simultaneously

Answer 9

polygynandry

Question 10

A model developed to predict the conditions under which a mating system will move from monogamy to polygyny or visa verse

Answer 10

polygyny threshold model

Question 11

A form of sexual selection that occurs directly between sperm after insemination

Answer 11

sperm competition