Movement Flashcards

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How can organisms increase chance of survival?

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By responding to changes in environment (stimuli) to provide a suitable response

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2 types of simple movement responses organisms can make due to stimuli

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Taxes
Kinesis

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Taxes

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A directional response there a whole organism moves either towards (pos) or away (neg) from a stimuli
This is directly to it

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Kinesis

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Random movements by the whole organism to find favourable conditions, without moving directly

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If organism is in unfavourable conditions

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Moves fast and turns little so more likely to find favourable conditions by random

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If organism is in favourable conditions in Kinesis…

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Moves slowly and turns a lot so will remain in favourable conditions

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Net effect of Kinesis

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Moves randomly towards favourable conditions and will remain there

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Answering questions on Kinesis/taxis

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Requires stating an evolutionary benefit

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