Download Bio 17 – Study Guide for FINAL This study guide should help

Bio 17 – Study Guide for FINAL
This study guide should help prepare you for the final exam. This is not a list of everything on
the final; you should really look over everything as EVERYTHING is fair game. This study
guides is meant to assist you to make sure you understand at least the basic concepts in class.
Tim’s Topics:
1) Make sure you understand what the prisoner’s dilemma is and what the tit-for-tat strategy is in
relation to the prisoner’s dilemma. Make sure you know the outcomes
2) Reread the article “What’s in your mind”. Make sure you know the parts of the brain, what
they do, the neurotransmitters we covered, and how a resting and action potential are generated.
Make sure you understand the activity we did about two-point discrimination.
3) Who are the Yomybato and the Yanomamo? Who are the Yanomamo most likely to engage
in negative reciprocity with?
4) Why might Pied Wagtails allow satellites onto their territories?
5) How do the following animals migrate: Sea Turtles, Monarch Butterflies, and Indigo
Buntings?
6) Make sure understand what reciprocity, kin selection, byproduct mutualism, and group
selection are. Make sure you can identify each from an example (either one given in class or a
hypothetical one). Explain Hamilton’s rule and the equation!
7) What factors are important in home range size of side-blotched lizards?
8) What affects the migration behavior of: Red-eyed Vireos, European Blackbirds, and Fox
Sparrows?
9) What’s the difference between an ultimate and proximate answer or explanation (make sure
you can recognize them from an example)?
10) What factors affect the feeding behavior of Starlings, Northwestern Crows, Oyster Catchers.
How does travel time affect optimal load size. What is optimal foraging activity? Make sure
you understand the two feeding simulations we did with balloons.
10) Be sure to review the meaning and purpose of the exercises we did in class. Make sure you
are familiar with the names and behaviors of the monkeys in the video we watched (Climbing the
social ladder).
11) How do human mate choices differ in terms of what females are looking for and what males
are looking for?
12) How does kin selection theory explain child abuse and whether you will get money to go to
college or not from a step parent?
13) Look at the graphs and study the animals! Make sure, for example, if I show you a graph of
mate selection based on the relationship scenarios of males and females that you can recognize it.
If we showed you a graph of a behavior, you should recognize it and what we used it to describe
and what animal it was done on!
14) Make sure you look over your field trip packet from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park!!! You
will have at least several questions about the animals and behaviors we saw on the trip!
Mark’s Topics:
Know the different people involved in the history. Be sure you can recognize the pictures of
each person and what they are known for. What is natural selection? Sexual selection?
Artificial selection? Group Selection? What is the difference between comparative psychology
and ethology? What is classical conditioning? Operant conditioning? Know the scientists that
won noble prizes and what they won for. What is imprinting (both filial and sexual)? FAP?
MAP? What is an ethogram? What is Tinbergen’s four questions? What is the difference
between proximate and ultimate questions? Why did we watch the bird movie?
What is a genotype? Phenotype? Who is Mendel? What does innate mean? Be able to tell what
two compounds affect foraging behavior in bees. Know what happened in the cross fostering
and spatial learning experiments. Know the examples of single gene effects in bees, mice, and
fruitflies and humans (don’t forget to look at homework questions). Know the multigenic effects
in lovebirds. Know the experiment on social deprivation in Rhesus monkeys (developmental
homeostasis) Know the corvid experiement on learning. What is bias learning? Habituation?
Sensitization? Observational Learning? What is cultural transmission? Local enhancement?
Social Facilitation? Social Learning? Know the three modes of cultural transmission? Know
examples of the above. Know how brains grow in relationship to body size. Who is higher than
expected? What limits intelligence/ know the diagram of the brains) Where does memory occur?
Know the activities
Communication: What is communication? True communication, eavesdropping, manipulation,
ignoring, alarm calls, discrete signal, graded, pseudopenis, honest signal, illegitimate receiver,
mob call, seet call, illegitimate signalers, Food bonanzas in Ravens, Honeybee dancing,
deception. Know the movie “Look who’s Talking” – be well aware of the two main subjects:
Monty Roberts and Temple Grandin (what is their “handicap” and how do they feel this makes
them effective in communicating with animals)
Parental Care: What is the difference between parental care and parental investment? What are
r-selected vs. K-selected species? Who is better under an unstable environment? What is the
difference between altricial and precocial young? What sex should be more involved in parental
care according to Trivers? What is the Bateman’s principle? What are the 4 evolutionary stable
strategies for parental care? What are the examples of each? Match the type of mating systems
with the most likely parental care strategy. What is the parent/offspring conflict? In birds, who
usually got fed more? How is this influenced Know the activity with the babies and food.
Antipredator/Survival: Know the 3 constraints on adaptive perfection. What is a search image?
Know how animals avoid predators (camouflage, cryptic coloration, disruptive coloration,
countershading, masquerading, being quiet, and the dilution effect). Be sure you know the
examples for each above). What are the choices animals can make when encountering predators?
Know examples for each. (aposematic coloration, feigning injury, fighting back, mimicry both
batesian and mullerian) Know how Thomson’s Gazelle cheetahs, lions, hyenas, and wild African
dogs. Know the optimal theory for covey size in bobwhite quail. What is a selfish herd?