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26 Cards in this Set
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The scientific name for the ants used in this lab is _________________________.
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Pogonomyrmex barbatus
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What is the category of chemicals called that functions as sex attractants as well as a means of identifying members of a colony or caste of insects? _______________________
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pheromones
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Which female in an ant colony is the only fertile reproductive ant? ___________
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queen
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Female ants differ from male ants because the female ants are ________________ while the male ants are _________________.
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diploid, haploid
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How often does the fertile female ant of a colony mate? ____________________
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?
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Each female ant receives ____________ copy/copies of the female parent genome.
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one
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Female siblings, on average, share _____________% of the genetic information they received from their female parent
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50%
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Female siblings share _____________% of the genetic information they received from their male parent.
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100%
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On average, female sibling ants share ____________% of their entire genomes in common.
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75%
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Worker ants can propagate their genes indirectly by ____________ the queen ant.
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helping
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In this lab you will be investigating whether or not the ants show a preference for their own soil or __________________________ and whether or not they show a preference for their own soil or _______________________.
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non-nest soil, foreign soil
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You should be careful when handling the ants because they can inflict a painful _____________ on the unwary
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sting
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What kind of hypothesis will you be testing in the lab? ___________________________
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null
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State specifically the hypothesis that you will be testing:
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ants can recognize their own nest
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How long will you observe each individual ant? ___________________________
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10 minutes
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How many ants (n) will make up the initial small samples? __________________
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5
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How many ants (n) will make up the pooled sample? _______________________
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20
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What kind of statistical test will be performed on the data? __________________________________
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Wilcoxan Signed Test
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What happens to the null hypothesis if data are significant? __________________
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reject
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What happens to the null hypothesis if the data are not significant? _______________________________
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accept
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If the calculated T value was smaller than the appropriate T value in the Wilcoxan Signed Rank test table, what would do with your hypothesis? ______________________________
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statistically significant
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If the ants have no soil preference in this investigation, how often would you expect to observe them on the non-nest soil samples? ___________________________
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50%
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How might the ants recognize their own soil from a sample taken from else where? __________________________________________________________
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phermones
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At what level of significance are we testing these data? _____________________
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If the data are statistically significant, what is the probability that these data reflect a sampling error and are actually not significant? _____________________
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How often do we prove our hypothesis to be correct? _______________________
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