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AP Bio - Unit 8
AP biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Animal behavior | -Anything an animal does |
| Stimulus | -internal or external cue that an animal responds to |
| innate behaviors | -nature |
| learned behaviors | -nurture |
| fitness | -chances of survival and reproduction |
| behavioral biology | -bio and evolutionary bases being studied |
| Ethology | -scientific study of animal behavior, Niko Tinbergen |
| hibernation | -a behavior where an animal reduces its metabolic rate |
| Estivation | -Opposite of hibernation. Occurs in the summer |
| Migration | -a behavior where animals move from one location to another |
| Circadian Rhythm | -internal body clock |
| reflex actions | -involuntary response to a stimulus |
| kinesis | -changes its movement in a non-directional way in response to cute, Slowing down or speeding up |
| Taxis | -directed movement either towards or away a stimulus. |
| fixed action pattern | -predictable series of automatic actions |
| Altruistic behavior | -reduces an individual's fitness while increasing others |
| communication | -a process where one animal transmits info to another |
| pheromone | -a secreted chemical signal used to trigger. (smell) |
| auditory communication | -communication based on sound |
| visual communication | -communication involves visual warnings |
| tactile signal | -communicated thru touch |
| phototaxis | -response to light |
| chemotaxis | -chemicals response |
| geotaxis | -gravity response |
| scillia | -in our lungs. filter out |
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