Communication
Learning
Mating
Random lecture material
BIOL 111
100
Animal communication requires both transmission and reception of this.
What is a signal?
100
This type of learning connects a stimulus with a behavior (e.g. blue jays associate aposematic color pattern with a bad taste and vomiting)
What is associative?
100
This mating system is described as 1:1
What is monogamy?
100
The word referring to the function of an organism and its body parts.
What is physiology?
100
This is the activity that will be done in next week's recitation.
What is a group discussion?
200
This term containing the Greek root for “shape”, refers to the physical form or structure of an organism and its body parts
What is morphology?
200
The stereotypical picture of a mother duck with her ducklings is an example of this type of learning
What is imprinting?
200
This mating system typically exhibits relationships of relatively short duration
What is polygamy?
200
An immediate “small-picture” cause of a behavior.
What is a proximate cause?
200
The abbreviation T.A. stands for this job held by undergraduate and graduate students
What is Teaching Assistant?
300
Chemical substances that a mammal or insect produces and releases into the environment, used to communicate and affect the behavior of others within its species
What are pheromones?
300
Culture develops from this type of learning as it shapes an entire population
What is social learning?
300
Cooperativity between parents is commonly required in this mating system.
What is monogamy?
300
This body system, in coordination with the muscular and skeletal systems, allows for communication.
What is the nervous system?
300
This building and room number are the BIOL 111 office.
What is Brown 3107?
400
Male fiddler crabs use the major claw to perform this motion in order to attract females
What is waving?
400
This animal was given as an example of having high ability in problem solving
What is a crow?
400
This type of young can be provided for adequately by a single parent
What are precocial young?
400
Explaining the behavior of monkeys grooming each other by saying that social bonds increase survival is an example of this type of a cause.
What is an ultimate cause?
400
This woman served as course secretary for BIOL 111 from January through Spring Break.
Who is Destiny?
500
The term for the glowing light produced by bacteria that Anglerfish use to lure prey
What is bioluminescence?
500
These internal representations of spatial relationships of important environmental objects are important for behaviors such as migration.
What are cognitive maps?
500
This type of young are considered helpless
What are altricial young?
500
The category of animal found most frequently in the images in the lecture slides from last week.
What are birds?
500
This percent is the average score on last week's lab practical exam.
What is 69%?