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Tropisms

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Directional response to a stimulus

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Nasty

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Non directional responses to a stimulus

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A taxic response

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Movement of an organism towards/away from a stimulus

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Kinesis

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Non directional responses to a stimulus

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Benefits of positive geotropism

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Roots grow deep for fertile soil & growth

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When photo receptors detect light

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Auxin is released in meristems. Sunlight causes auxin to move away, causes cell elongation. Cells grow towards the light.

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Benefit for shoots positive phototropism

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-grows towards the light so better photosynthesis
- avoid shading if other plants
- more exposure to pollinators

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How does auxin work

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Auxin works by gathering in te lower half of the stem. In roots auxin will shorten the cells in the underside, causing the root to bend downwards.

In stems auxin lengthens the cells on the underside. Bending the shoot to point upwards

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Photoperiodism

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A plants response to change in day length. If plant has lots of Pr- it understands it’s night/winter

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The most reliable cue used for animals

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Photoperiod- length of daylight (identifying the time of year, as it reflects the seasons)

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A plants directional response to a stimulus

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Tropism

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A plants non directional response to a stimulus

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Nasty

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Animal directional response to stimulus

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Taxis

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Animal non directional response to a stimulus

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Kinesis

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Gravity

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Geo

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Light

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Photo

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Chemical

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Chemo

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Touch

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Thigmo

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How does auxin affect roots

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Slows growth, cells shorten and root bends downwards

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How does auxin affect shoots

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Speeds up shoot growth, Cells lengthen, shoot bends up wards

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Current

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Rheo

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Meristems

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Growth tissue present at the tips = apical, at stem branches =latteral

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What causes migration

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Maturation and breeding, environmental cues, predators, food supply

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Advantages of migration

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  • favourable temp so less e used
  • grow larger/stronger so better defense
  • successful reproduction so genetic variation and survival increases
  • constant food supply
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Disadvantages migration
-may get lost - predators - uses up e (huge energy investment)
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Navigation methods
- path intergration, Smell, Trail following Mental maps Piloting Communication Magnetic fields Ocean and river currents
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Intraspecific relationship
Interactions between individuals of same species. These can be cooperative or aggressive
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What’s intraspecific competition
- have same needs and niches and there for me have competition for resources
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Teritory
Defined area defended from individuals of same species
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Defending area costs energy and time so benefits are:
Safe space to court, breed, grow Raise young. Food shelter water (good to reproduce)
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Strategies to reduce competition
Social hierarchies Home range terotories
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Altruistic behaviour
Increasing welfare of others, whilst putting themselves in danger
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Kin selection
Showing altruisms to only family
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Advances of hierarchy
Adaptive advantages for group, e.g. list, time and energy spent fighting, more energy and time for hunting feeding and breeding.
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Parental care
Animals, very in the extent, they care for the young. 2 strats one r and K
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r
Large numbers of offspring produced, little care is provided
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K
Lots of care, few offspring produced Young have behaviour patterns that serve to reduce aggressive behaviour.
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Advantages of biological clock
Anticipate environmental changes to maximise feeding time, avoid predators and competition
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Biological clock
A natural internal timing system which occurs without any external cues and controls the organisms activity
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Endogenous
Frequency not the exact same as environmental factors. Deviates from natural rhythm
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Exogenous
Controlled by environmental cues
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Biological rhythms
Regular, predictable patterns of activity or behaviour in living organisms
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Circadian rhythm
Biological rhythm with a period of 24 hrs
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Circalunar
Influenced by moon phases, 29.5 days
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Circannual rhythms
Influenced by changing seasons, 365 days
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Biological rhythms help organisms regulate
Essential processes like reproduction, metabolism, and behaviour
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Biological rhythm
A cycle of events that is controlled endogenously (internally)
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Endogenous rhythms
Don’t match exactly with external environments
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Zeitgebers
Environmental cues that prompt us
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Entrainment
The constant adjustment of the endogenous mechanism which means the animals are kept in exact synchronisation with the environment
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Phytochrome
A protein that regulates the time in which a plant flowers. There are two types, the red light absorbing form (Pr) and the far red light absorbing form (Pfr). During daylight hours Pr is converted to pfr. At night the absence of red light causes the pfr to slowly convert back to pr
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Interspecific relationships
Interaction between different species in a biological community
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Interspecific relationships
Interaction between different species in a biological community
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Interspecific relationships
I
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Gauses principle of competetige exclusion
When two or more species occupy the same ecological niche, each species moves into slightly different measures or one species prevails, and the other is excluded becoming extinct in that habitat
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Exploitation
An overarching term that describes the relationship where one species benefits positively, and one is harmed negatively
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Avoid predation
Behavioural responses, camouflage, chemical, and structural defences, mimicry Batesian and mullerian
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Parasites
Ectoparasites Endoparasites
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Social parasites
Reproductive parasites Slave parasites
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Mutualism
Benefits both
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Commensalism
One benefits one is unharmed
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Amesnsalism
One is unharmed the other is harmed
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Parasitic relationship
Parasites, benefits, and exploits a host who is harmed
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Territorialism
Defending and maintaining a specific area for resources mates and rearing offspring
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Courtship
Behaviours that lead to successful breed in and reproduction in animals
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Intraspecific relationships
Interactions between individuals of the same species
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Linear hierarchy
hierarchy that occurs in a social group when the individuals are ranked from highest to lowest or from ‘alpha’ to ‘omega’
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Advantages hierarchy
- more reproduction opportunity -safer from predators/ better defence - more food and better hunting
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Disadvantages hierarchy
Weaker members become extinct from population - more Intraspecific competition for resources as group grows -increased risk of spreading disease
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How to remove zeitgeber
Place organism in constant / 24 hr darkness. With no zeitgeber / entrainment, the rhythm becomes free- running and shows weta’s natural endogenous rhythm
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Phase shifting
Entrainment involves a process called phase shifting, in which the start of the rhythm / activity is advanced or retarded. Phase shifting can be accomplished using an appropriate environmental cue. Often this cue is light (or absence of light).
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Phase shifting
Entrainment involves a process called phase shifting, in which the start of the rhythm / activity is advanced or retarded. Phase shifting can be accomplished using an appropriate environmental cue. Often this cue is light (or absence of light).
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Phase shifting
Entrainment involves a process called phase shifting, in which the start of the rhythm / activity is advanced or retarded. Phase shifting can be accomplished using an appropriate environmental cue. Often this cue is light (or absence of light).
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Mimicry
Adaptive resemblance between unrelated species
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Free running
Behaviour rhythm that occurrs independently of external changes

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