Evolution
Natural Selection
Evidence for Evolution
Population Genetics
Animal Behavior 1
Animal Behavior 2
Animal Behavior 3
100
The ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is Fitness?
100
The survival and reproduction of the organisms that are genetically best fit for their environment
What is the definition of Natural Selection?
100
The hip bones of a dolphin and the tailbone of a human
What are Vestigial Structures?
100
When more extreme phenotypes within a population have a fitness advantage over intermediate individuals
What is disruptive selection?
100
Behavior that results in mating and eventual reproduction
What is courtship?
100
Blue Wildebeest living on the Savannah - seasonal movement to follow food sources.
What is migration?
100
An animal protects the land where it lives from incursions by others of its species
What is territorial behaviors?
200
Two different organisms are alike, they share this in their bloodline
What is common ancestor?
200
The variety of dog and cat breeds that we have today are a product of _________ _____________.
What is Artificial Breeding (Selective Breeding)
200
A cat, human, bat, and whale all having the same arm bones.
What is a homologous structure?
200
A population tends to remove the more severe phenotypes, resulting in the reproductive success of the norm or average phenotypes
What is stabilizing selection?
200
Ants use pheromones to mark a trail to food.
What is chemical communication?
200
The sound an animal makes
What is auditory communication?
200
Graylag Goose, rolling egg into nest
What is fixed action patterns?
300
Organisms that can reproduce and produce fertile offspring
What is a species?
300
A change in the allelic frequency in a gene pool of a population over time
What is Evolution?
300
Body parts that share a common function but have a different structure
What is an analogous structure?
300
Occurs when individuals with traits on one side of the mean in their population survive better or reproduce more than those on the other
What is directional selection?
300
A crow using a stick to get food
What is insight learning?
300
Natural cycle of change in our body’s chemicals or functions
What is biological rhythms?
300
A Colony of Ants
What is cooperative behaviors?
400
A variation in an organism that helps it survive
What is Adaptation?
400
Lamarck said that organisms acquire traits during their lifetime and then pass them on to their offspring
How is the theory of natural selection different from Lamarck's theory?
400
Humans and bananas being nearly 60% genetically identical
What are DNA from common ancestors?
400
Geographic, behavioral, and temporal isolation are all examples of
What is reproductive isolation?
400
An Orb Web Spider building sticky wagon wheel webs.
What is innate behavior?
400
Group of animals belonging to the same species that work together
What is animal societies?
400
Come to recognize an animal or object as a parent at first birth/hatch.
What is imprinting?
500
Evolution can only occur is this is involved
What is Genetic Variety?
500
A little child catches a fly and pulls its wings off. The fly actually lives a better life, but does not pass its lack of wings on to its offspring because the loss of wings is an _________ _______.
What is an Acquired Trait?
500
In embryology, the embryos are very similar to each other
What is a common ancestor?
500
In the case of the elephant seals, where humans hunted them nearly to extinction, and their allelic frequencies changed due to the dramatic reduction in the population size
What is the Bottleneck Effect?
500
Method of Learning that employs rewards and/or punishments for behavior
What is operant conditioning?
500
Learning Through association - Biological stimulus paired with neutral stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
500
An animal is able to separate itself from its surroundings, self awareness
What is cognition?