Chapter 51 Animal Behavior Answers
AP Biology Reading Guide
Fred and Theresa Holtzclaw
Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Name___________________________ Period___________
Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Overview
1.
How is behavior defined?
Concept 51.1 Discrete sensory inputs can stimulate both simple and complex behaviors
2.
What is ethology?
3.
What is the difference between proximate and ultimate causation?
4.
Using red-crowned cranes, what is an example of a proximate causation question and an example of an ultimate causation question?
5.
Who are the three ethologists who shared in a Nobel Prize for their work in 1973? We will look at work by each of them.
6.
What is a fixed action pattern (FAP)? Give an example.
7.
What is a sign stimulus? Give at least …show more content…
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AP Biology Reading Guide
Fred and Theresa Holtzclaw
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Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
This concept looks at some very interesting ways that genetic changes affect behavior. Several important case studies that show a genetic component to behavior are presented. Take time to read and enjoy them. The study of voles and their mating behaviors is often discussed in other science articles. To return to fruit fly mating, a single gene called fru controls male mating behavior. If males lack a functional fru gene (short for fruitless), what happens?
And what occurs if females are genetically manipulated to express this gene?
Concept 51.4 Selection for individual survival and reproductive success can explain most behaviors
28.
What is foraging behavior?
29.
What is proposed by the optimal foraging theory? Explain it in terms of cost and benefit, and cite two examples from your text.
30.
To demonstrate that you understand the principle of optimal foraging, describe a food source that you would not be likely to exploit.
31.
Explain each of these mating systems: promiscuity monogamy
Fred and Theresa Holtzclaw
Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Name___________________________ Period___________
Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
Overview
1.
How is behavior defined?
Concept 51.1 Discrete sensory inputs can stimulate both simple and complex behaviors
2.
What is ethology?
3.
What is the difference between proximate and ultimate causation?
4.
Using red-crowned cranes, what is an example of a proximate causation question and an example of an ultimate causation question?
5.
Who are the three ethologists who shared in a Nobel Prize for their work in 1973? We will look at work by each of them.
6.
What is a fixed action pattern (FAP)? Give an example.
7.
What is a sign stimulus? Give at least …show more content…
Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc.
-4-
AP Biology Reading Guide
Fred and Theresa Holtzclaw
27.
Chapter 51: Animal Behavior
This concept looks at some very interesting ways that genetic changes affect behavior. Several important case studies that show a genetic component to behavior are presented. Take time to read and enjoy them. The study of voles and their mating behaviors is often discussed in other science articles. To return to fruit fly mating, a single gene called fru controls male mating behavior. If males lack a functional fru gene (short for fruitless), what happens?
And what occurs if females are genetically manipulated to express this gene?
Concept 51.4 Selection for individual survival and reproductive success can explain most behaviors
28.
What is foraging behavior?
29.
What is proposed by the optimal foraging theory? Explain it in terms of cost and benefit, and cite two examples from your text.
30.
To demonstrate that you understand the principle of optimal foraging, describe a food source that you would not be likely to exploit.
31.
Explain each of these mating systems: promiscuity monogamy