Animal Behavior Final Exam

Animal behavior flashcards for final exam.

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Origins of behavior (3)
Natural SelectionLearningCultural Transmission
Polygyny
A matying system in which a male fertilizes the eggs of several partners in a breeding season
Fathers of Ethology
TinbergenVon FrischLorenz
Proximate Causation
Physiological mehanismsHormonesSensory organs & perceptionNervous systemGenes and development
Ultimate Causation
Survival valueFunctional significance (why it's adaptive)Adaptive valueEvolutionary HistoryPhylogeny
Ontogeny
Sequential unfolding of an individual's genetic potential while in the womb/egg
Experience
The individual expresses it's genetic potential within a variable environment throughout the lifetime
Epigenesis
Interaction of the environment and genetics that results in a particular phenotype
Natural Selection (3)
VariationHeredityDifferential reproductive success (fitness varies)
Hardy-Weinberg Assumptions (4)
No mutationno migrationrandom matinglarge population
Polygenic trait
Trait that is under the control of multiple genes
Pleiotropy
Situation under which a gene may influence multiple phenotypes
Group selection
The idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow on groups, regardless of the alleles' effect on the fitness of individuals within that group
Haplodiploidy
Males are haploidfemales are diploid(can be related by 3/4 of genes)
Imprinting types (3):
Filialauditorysexual