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What is Ethology?
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the branch of biology studying animal behavior
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What 2 categories did Aristotle use?
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Genus and Species
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What mechanism did Darwin say drives evolution?
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Natural Selection
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What trigers an FAP (fixed action pattern)?
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Stimulus
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What are Species?
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animals that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
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Name 2 steps of the Scientific Method
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Observe, Hypothesis, Predict, Test, Scientific explanation, Status
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Name 2 types of data that observationist collect
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Identify individuals and gender
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Scientist manipulate what variable?
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Independent
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What is the difference between the isolation method and the correlation method?
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In the isolation method: one group is deprived of something while the other group isnt'
In the correlation method: measurable changes, nothing manipulated, typically used on humans |
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What is the comparitive method?
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Comparing behavior among similar species
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What is the cost benefit analysis?
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What a given behavior costs the animal vs what is gained
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What are the four parts to the theory of evolution?
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Variation within species
Heredity Adaptation for survival Natural selection |
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What is allopatric speciation?
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Members of the same species separated by a physical barrier forcing them to live in a different environment
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What is an example of sexual selection?
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Male lion
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What is puncuated equilibrium?
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Population stays stable and then changes rapidly due to sudden environment changes
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What is an example of a vestigal organ?
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Appendix
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Give one example that supports evolution
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The fossil record
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What is the progressivism fallacy?
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Evolution does not always go from simple to complex
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What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?
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Genotype is the genetic makeup
Phenotype is what it physically looks like |
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Name 2 things that genes do
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Hair growth
Heartbeat |
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What is mutation?
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A random change in genes
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What is gene flow?
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Movement of an individual in or out of population which changes the allele frequency
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What is genetic drift?
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Changes in gene pool by chance
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Give an example of humans doing artificial selection
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Dog breeds
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Give an example of an extinctive drift
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Horse going into a burning barn
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An organism with a shorter lifespan relys on ____ behavior
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Innate
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Least complicated form of learning?
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Habituation
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What is insightful learning?
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Solve a problem based on previous experience
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Give an example of a type of bird taht shows spatial learning
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Woodpecker
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Imitation is a form of ____ learning.
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Social
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What family did our human ancestors come from?
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Family Hominidae
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Name one physical change in our skeletons that allow us to be bipedal
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Our pelvic structure
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Name 2 features of homo erectus
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Smaller teeth
Flatter face |
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What type of human was able to adapt and therefore out lived the Neanderthals?
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Cro-Magnon Man
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