courtship behavior

Question 1

What is courtship behavior?

Answer 1

= essential for sucessful mating
= and for species recognition

Question 2

What is a species?

Answer 2

= a group of similar organisms, that can breed to make fertile offspring
= species must reproduce and pass on advantageous alleles for the surivival of the species
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Question 3

What are courtship rituals?

Answer 3

= a sequence of actions which is unique to the species, this is how animals identify members of their own species to reproduce with

Question 4

Which genders is more likely to do these rituals?

Answer 4

= males
= females obsevre the ritual and decide if they want to mate with the male

Question 5

What do these rituals contain?

Answer 5

= sequence of dance moves
= sounds
= releae of pheromeomes
= display of feathers
= fighting

Question 6

What is the importance of courtship rituals?

Answer 6

= ensure sucessful reproduction
= recognise their own species and opposite sex
= suncrhonises mating behaiour- indicates sexually mature and in season (releasing egg)- if they werent sexually mature feryile gametes are not made, if wont be sucessful reproduction- can mate and produce fertile offspring

Question 7

How does courtship behaviour allow for the survival of offspring:

Answer 7

= form a pair bond-
= choose a strong and healthy mate

Question 8

How can you study these rituals to determine how closley related diferent species are?

Answer 8

= the more similar a courtship ritual is beyweem 2 species that are different the more closley related the species are

Question 9

What does a similar sequence show?

Answer 9

= courtship sequence is genetically determined so the more similar a species sequence is the more similar the DNA base sequencwe is