Hone S'More
What is a chemical signal that travels throughout the body to send signals?
Hormone
The category of genes that regulate our internal clock
Clock genes
An animal that is awake and preforms most of its tasks during night
Nocturnal
A behavior that is hardcoded in an animals genes and cant be learned
Instinct
The type of cognition that orients an animal in space
Spacial Cognition
Cortisol
How often does a circadian rhythym repeat
24 hours
The 2 places where an animal lacks a 24 hour cycle
bottom of ocean and near poles
Psychologist who did research on classical conditioning on dogs
Pavlov
Oceanic mammal that preform hunting strategies in front of young to teach them
Orcas
Name 1 of the 3 most common hormone releasing organs
This low lifespan animal was used to study genes that effect biological time
What is a fruit fly
An animal that preforms most of its tasks during dusk and dawn
Crepuscular
Brown australian jewel beetles attempted to mate with what form of trash
brown bottles
Outside forces changing expression of genes
Epigenetics
A hormone that is created in the body
Endogenous Hormone
The study of biological rhythms
Chronobiology
The german word for an external cue that effects an animals sense of time
Zeitgeber
A type of conditioning where an animal learns an action results in a specific outcome
Operant conditioning
How long distance migratory animals orient themselves relative to the earth
Magnetic fields
Name one of the 2 main hunger effecting hormones
Ghrelin or Leptin
This part of the brain is the master time keeper
Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
What does Zeitberge translate to
Time giver
Ability for an animal to make new neuron connections
Synaptic Plasticity
The strategy orcas use to catch seals by hurling themselves onto land
intentional breaching