This lab studies the evolution of 12 replicate populations of E. coli over 30,000 generations.
What is the experimental evolution lab? (Lenksi Lab)
100
This American biologist wrote the book “Silent Spring” and is credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
100
This is a behavioral sequence that is relatively invariant within the species and almost inevitably runs to completion.
What is a fixed action pattern?
100
This organism is actually the result of a symbiotic relationship between fungi and an algae or cyanobacteria.
What is lichen?
100
This model describes the population dynamics of a single predator species feeding on a single prey species.
What is Lotka-Volterra?
200
This lab studies how novel phenotypes evolve and diversify, e.g. electric organs.
What is the electric fish lab? (Gallant Lab)
200
This English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
This behavior sometimes occurs in spotted hyenas when, in twin litters, only one cub survives.
What is siblicide?
200
This is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine the ancestral relationship between them, and to discover how developmental processes evolved.
What is Evo-Devo?
200
Reciprocally positive interaction between species.
What are mutualisms?
300
This lab studies digital evolution with Markov Network Brains to understand the evolution of behavior and intelligence.
What is the Adami Lab?
300
This Dutch biologist is known for his “Four Questions” that represent four different levels at which one might study a behavior. (Mechanism, Development, Function, and Evolution)
Who is Nicholas Tinbergen?
300
This is a behavior seen in social animals, where prey species closely approach and attempt to harass a predator.
What is mobbing?
300
These two species are in a co-evolutionary arms race for tetrodotoxin toxicity and resistance.
What are rough-skinned newts and garter snakes?
300
A type of bottleneck, defined as the creation of a new population by a small number of colonists.
What is a founder event?
400
This lab studies freshwater and marine phytoplankton in order to answer fundamental questions of community ecology.
What is the Litchman-Klausmeier Lab?
400
This American biologist is known for his contribution to ecological theory with “island biogeography” and is also considered to be the father of sociobiology. He also introduced the idea of biophilia, meaning an innate love of nature, which he believed all humans possessed.
Who is E.O. Wilson?
400
This is a mating display site that females visit to select a mate from among displaying males. This is seen in polygynous species.
What is a lek?
400
This hormone is related to a life-history trade-off between growth or reproduction and mortality.
What is IGF-1?
400
Variation in restoration outcomes caused by variation in initial conditions across years.
What are year effects?
500
This lab is exploring how microbes survive, and decompose grass litter, in the hyperarid sand dunes of the Namib Desert, Namibia.
What is the Evans Lab?
500
This American ecologist is often known as the father of modern ecology and was one of the first to combine ecology with mathematics.
Who is George E. Hutchinson?
500
This is a food item transferred by a male to a female just prior to or during copulation.
What is a nuptial gift?
500
This popular model organism is social, shows elaborate breeding behavior, shows great morphological variation throughout its range, and is very tolerant to changes in salinity.
What is a three-spined stickleback?
500
This is one of the main factors inhibiting restoration of post-agricultural plant communities in longleaf pine savannas.