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Physiology How the systems in the body, including cells, function focusing primarily on vertebrate animals. This includes humans.
How an animal responds to its environment. animal physiology
How do modern day animals carry out their functions? Proximate/Mechanisms
Why do modern day animals possess features that they do? Ultimate/Origin
Evolutions doesn’t necessarily lead to… Optimization.
Which scenario is an example of evolution? A: Diet makes bugs smaller B: Beetles of different color due to gene mutations B: because of the gene mutation
Reasons for evolutions Mutation. Migration. Genetic drift. Natural selection.
A trait that has become frequent in a population because it confers a greater probability of survival and successful reproduction. Adaptation
A measurement of how adaptive a trait might be. Specifically for reproduction ability Fitness
Natural Sexual Anthropogenic Types of selection
INTRA selection Selection due to interactions between individuals of the same sex (male v male)
INTER selection Selection due to interactions of opposite sex (male impress female)
Human created/unnatural, habitat loss, pollution, climate change, invasive species, emerging wildlife sickness Anthropogenic selection
“Master regulator” Animals must respond to changes in their environment on both rapid and slow timescales
Use information about the environment, gathered by the special senses to direct signals to the rest of the body to modify the controlled variable often to help maintain homeostasis Control systems
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