When a tomcat sprays his urine on a tree, he is communicating with other male cats that this is his territory. This is the type of chemical he uses.....
A. pheromone, B. auditory, C. verbal, D. foraging
What is Pheromone
100
A squirrel's body temperature drops, his oxygen dereases, and his breathing rate decreases. This animal is...
A. foraging for food, B. giving birth, C. hibernateing, D. courting.
What is hibernateing
100
Zebra's have different stripe patters. A newborn zebra sees his mother's stripes when he is born. This is how he recognzes her among hundreds of zebras. This is an example of....
A. hibernating, B. trial and error behavior, C. imprinting, D. cognitive behavior
What is Imprinting
100
An Eagle and a fly have similar fetures that are considered what kind of structures?
A. Vestigal, B. homologous, C. analogous, d. comparative
What is analogous
100
Genetic information usually flows in one specifc direction. Which of te following BEST represents this flow?
A. DNA>Protein>RNA, B. Protein>RNA>DNA, C. RNA>Proteing,>DNA D. DNA>RNA>Protein
What is DNA>RNA>Protein
200
When a dog hears a bell ring, he begins to salivate (drool) because he associates the bell wth food. This is an example of....
A. classical conditioning, B. innate behavior, C. imprinting, D. cognitive behavior.
What is classical conditioning
200
Two polar bears are growling and shoving each other. One walks away and the other gains territory. This is an example of...
A. agnostic behavior, B. forging behavior, C. biological rhythms, D. imprinting
What is anostic behavior
200
Seasonal movement is an example of which type of behavior?
A. classical conditioning, B. fixed action pattern, C. migratory, D. habituation
What is migratory
200
Which taxon contains one or more kingdoms?
A. genus, B. phylum, C. family, D. domain
What is phylum
200
What are the basic blocks of DNA?
A. nucleus, B. ribose, C. purines, D. nucleotides
What are nucleotides
300
Which is an example of circadian rhythm?
A. migration, B. sleep/wake cycle, C. hibernation,
D. reproductive cycle
What is sleep/wake cycle
300
Which is not a learned behavior?
A. a family of geese fly south for the winter, B. a baby bird will chirp and open its mouth as soon as it hatches. C. a horse is no longer afraid of cars, D. the cat goes to the kitchen when it hears te can opener.
What is a baby bird will chirp and open its mouth as soon as it hatches.
300
A chimpanzee cannot get to the termites in the hole in the ground. He looks around and finds a stick. he places the stick in the hole and pulls out "nothing." The chimp looks around for a longer stick. He places this stick in the hole and pulls out many termites to eat. This is an example of......
A.imprinting, B. cognitive behavior, C. active pheromones, D. estivtion
What is cognitive behavior
300
Which sets of structures are homologous?
A. a butterfly's wing and a bat's wing, B. a moth's eyes and a cows eyes C. a beetle's leg and a horses leg, D. a whale's flipper and a bird's wing
What is a whale's flipper and a bird's wing
300
Which phase of meiosis has all of the strands lined up in the middle?
A. prophase I, B. prophase II, C. metaphase I, D. metaphase II
What is metaphase I
400
When a male lion patrols the beach where his female sea lions rest, he is displaying which type of behavior?
A. habituation, B. territorial behavior, C. pecking order, D.circadian rhythem
What is territorial behavior
400
Which behavior usually is concerned with finding and eating food?
A. nurturing, B. courting, C. foraging, D.migration
What is foraging
400
The non-reproductive member of colony of naked mole rats exhibits this behavior when they protect the queen and huddle around her to provide warmth while she is nursing her offspring.
A. nurturing, B. migratory, C. territorial, D. altruistic
What is altruistic
400
Darwin's theory of evoluion after his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle is representd by which of the following?
A. natural selection, B. divergent evolution, C. species have remained the same over time, D. species have changed only recently
What is natural selection
400
What is the compimentary mRNA sequence to the DNA sequence A-T-T-G-C-A?
A. T-A-A-C-G-T, B. U-A-A-C-G-T, C. U-A-A-C-G-U,
D. T-A-A-G-C-U
What is What is U-A-A-C-G-U
500
Which behavior is genetically based and not linked to past experince?
a. habituation, b. classical conditioning, c. fixed action pattern, d. operant conditioning.
What is fixed action pattern.
500
Which of the following is an example of imprinting?
A. salmon returning to the water in which they hatched their spawn, B. a rat learning to press a lever to get food, C. a baby lion learning how to hunt, D. a baby bird getting used to seeing objects above them
What is Salmon returning to the water in which they hatched their spawn
500
What type of morphological adapation does the stick bug represent when it hides in a tree?
A. camouflage, B. mimcry, C. fitness, D. Homologous
What is Mimcry
500
According to the theory of natual selection, why are some individuals more likely than others to survive and reproduce?
A. They pass on to their offspring new characteristics they acquired during their lifetimes. B. they are better adapted to exist in their environment, C. they do not pass on to their offspring new characteristics they have acquired during their lifetime. D. they tend to produce fewer offspring than do others in the same environment.
What is they are better adapted to exist in their environment
500
Which strand of DNA can base pair with the folowing DNA strand A-T-G-C-T-A?
A. A-T-G-C-T-A, B. T-A-C-G-A-T, C. U-A-C-G-A-U,
D. A-U-G-C-U-A