p & a final

Question 1

allisome

Answer 1

extension of plant that an ant grabs + seeds disperses

Question 2

foregut fermentation

Answer 2

increase in nutrition absorption

Question 3

Bacera

Answer 3

insect diversity + plant diversity

disparity of insects

latitude excepted but not correct

Question 4

Skull

Answer 4

herbivore, grazer, grinding teeth, crushing plant material

Question 5

selective pressure of seed dispersal

Answer 5

competition with its parent (shaded herbivores, soil, bacteria)

Question 6

corpse flower

Answer 6

beetles pollinate it

olfactory of __ feeding insects

Question 7

pine tree mast to overwhelm herbivores

Answer 7

saturation by fruiting all at once so herbivores cant get all at once

Question 8

dung beetles

Answer 8

too much cattle so needed to get poop

be breaks down slowly tattemative to biting flies??

there were wrong dung beetles brought to us (i think) so they needed bigger ones

Question 9

pinon jays

Answer 9

big hippocampus

special seed carrying part in mouth

big

Question 10

domestication syndrome of cereals

Answer 10

no reproduction w/out humans

reduced plant defenses and lower communication w/ microrisal + other species

non shattering seed head, faster growth, reduced competition

Question 11

Adaptive radiation of bees

Answer 11

mid cretaceous

bernese amber (beetles, thrips , wasps) but bees were not preserved

crown groups, molecular phyloqerny

resin collecting bees fossilize out

Question 12

flower plants

Answer 12

triassic

angiosperm terr–> crestaceous

Question 13

hypatic portal system

Answer 13

detoxifies plant toxins you eat

liver - big molecule?

kidney - small molecule

filtration

Question 14

seed caching birds

Answer 14

blue jay (other corvids)

Question 15

insect herbivore adaptations

Answer 15

chewing mouth parts

peritrophic membrane

Question 16

example of hindgut fermenter

Answer 16

rabbit, horse, iguana

Question 17

foregut examples

Answer 17

cow, antelope

Question 18

example of obligate pollinators - plant

Answer 18

yucca moths + yuccas

Question 19

2 functions of secondary metabolites

Answer 19

defense against herbivores

Question 20

what is not domesticated

Answer 20

brazil nuts and paw paws

Question 21

know*

phylogeny congruent vs not in hosts + parasites

Question 22

mistletoe and birds

Answer 22

mutualistic

endozoochory ( Jordano)

Question 23

neotropical anachronisms

Answer 23

big seeds

yellow/brown

Question 24

pokilothermic ectotherm makes what…

Answer 24

good sit and wait predator

cold blooded so must conserve

Question 25

orchid sexual mimic

Answer 25

bee or wasps partner

Question 26

jordano paper

Answer 26

big birds for long distance

dispersal + founding small w/in populations