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NCEA Level 3: Animal Plant Responses
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1. Type of behavior in which an animal sends out stimuli—such as sounds - visual displays - or chemicals—in order to attract a member of the opposite sex
Courtship
Innate
Polygynandry
Stimulus
2. Any area that an animal defends against other animals
Hierarchy
Abscisic Acid
Pair Bonding
Territory
3. A group or system in which positions of power are ranked
Hierarchy
Geomagnetic Cues
Cooperative Interactions
Diurnal
4. Located in the brain; secretes hormone melatonin; in some species - it regulates the biological clock and biorhythms
Cytokinins
Octogram
Critical Day Length
Pineal
5. A single receptor is used to calculate the direction of a stimulus
Biological Orientation
Circadian
Klinotaxes
Sexual Dimorphism
6. The process by which evolution selects for genes that cause individuals to provide benefits to their relatives
Nastic Responses
Agonistic
Kin Selection
Hibernation
7. The lobes of the brain that receive signals from the receptors in the eyes
Geomagnetic Cues
Klinotaxes
Long Day Plant
Optic Lobes
8. When organisms orient themselves either towards or away from a stimulus
Sun Compass
Biological Orientation
Monogamy
Mimicry
9. This is the growth towards or away from a stimulus coming from one direction. If the movement is towards the stimulus it is positive - if it is away from the stimulus it is negative
Polygynandry
Octogram
Crepuscular
Tropisms
10. When one organism has power over another
Kineses
Dominance
Sun Compass
Short Day Plant
11. A colored chemical compound that absorbs light - producing color
Critical Day Length
Zeitgeber
Pigment
Antagonist
12. Of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals
Octogram
Circadian
Monogamy
Polygyny
13. This is a non-directional response to a stimulus or a change in activity rate in response to a change in the intensity of the stimulus
Gibberellins
Nocturnal
Tropisms
Kineses
14. A plant hormone that brings about dormancy in buds - mantains dormancy in seeds - and brings about stomatal closing - among other effects.
Crepuscular
Aggresive
Abscisic Acid
Hormones
15. A polygamous mating system involving one male and many females
Diurnal
Polygyny
Mimicry
Courtship
16. Chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands - travel through the bloodstream - and affect other tissues
Critical Day Length
Short Day Plant
Submissive
Hormones
17. Plant that generally requires short nights-- less that 10-12 hours of darkness to begin the flowering process.
Ethylene
Polyandry
Innate
Long Day Plant
18. A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react.
Exogenous
Abscisic Acid
Stimulus
Long Day Plant
19. Cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter
Hibernation
Monogamy
Diurnal
Mimicry
20. Foe - opponent - adversary
Antagonist
Effectors
Crepuscular
Innate
21. To change the start times of a rhythm - but not its period
Homing
Pair Bonding
Optic Lobes
Phase Shift
22. Plant hormone that stimulates fruit ripening and leaf drop
Ethylene
Dormancy
Biological Orientation
Beta
23. Substance produced in the tip of a seedling that stimulates cell elongation
Diurnal
Crepuscular
Hormones
Auxin
24. Prolonged relationship between male and female - associated with joint parental care
Pair Bonding
Polyandry
Long Day Plant
Kin Selection
25. Working together between species or in a species
Cooperative Interactions
Beta
Geomagnetic Cues
Hibernation
26. Movement of the whole organism towards or away from a stimulus coming from one direction
Beta
Taxes
Ethylene
Monogamy
27. Stimulates cell division and growth of lateral buds. Causes dormant seeds to sprout.
Auxin
Phase Shift
Kineses
Cytokinins
28. When the amount of random turning is related to the intensity of a stimulus (unorientated response)
Geomagnetic Cues
Optic Lobes
Hibernation
Klinokinesis
29. Plant that generally requires long nights-- 12 or more hours of darkness to begin the flowering process.
Short Day Plant
Hierarchy
Phase Shift
Crepuscular
30. First in order of importance
Alpha
Tropisms
Gibberellins
Geomagnetic Cues
31. A hormone that promotes seed and bud germination - stem elongation - and leaf growth; stimulate flowering and development of fruit; affect root growth and differentiation
Courtship
Ethylene
Free Running Period
Gibberellins
32. Orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
Optic Lobes
Sexual Dimorphism
Diapause
Homing
33. Serves as a navigational cue. Many birds use star patterns and movement for navigation.
Aggresive
Star Compass
Long Day Plant
Hormones
34. A special case of polymorphism based on the distinction between the secondary sex characteristics of males and females.
Star Compass
Polygyny
Hierarchy
Sexual Dimorphism
35. The natural period of the rhythm if there are no external cues.
Free Running Period
Short Day Plant
Biological Clock
Kin Selection
36. The environmental agent that resets the biological clock e.g: change in light - temperature
Zeitgeber
Nocturnal
Ethylene
Innate
37. Diagram showing the periods of activity and rest of an organism over a number of twenty four hour periods so that trends in activity can be identified
Migration
Tropisms
Octogram
Auxin
38. Yearly activity period - approximately 360 days
Circannual
Migration
Klinotaxes
Mimicry
39. A biological clock that enables a migrating bird or insect to fly using the sun and continuously adjust its angle to the sun while flying.
Polygynandry
Circannual
Sun Compass
Sexual Dimorphism
40. A polygamous mating system involving one female and many males
Dormancy
Polyandry
Polygamy
Critical Day Length
41. Having a daily cycle or occurring every day
Taxes
Dominance
Diurnal
Receptors
42. Light receptor pigment in photoperiodism. Pr (red-light absorbing) vs Pfr (infrared light absorbing) In short-day plants - it stops flowering but in long-day plants it induces flowering
Exogenous
Hibernation
Crepuscular
Phytochrome
43. Derived or originating externally
Exogenous
Kineses
Territory
Zeitgeber
44. Cause responses that alter conditions in the internal environment
Effectors
Cytokinins
Nastic Responses
Circannual
45. Period of dormancy - usually seasonal - which growth and development cease and metabolism is greatly reduced
Monogamy
Diapause
Innate
Cooperative Interactions
46. Second in order of importance
Geomagnetic Cues
Beta
Phase Shift
Zeitgeber
47. Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment
Submissive
Phase Shift
Receptors
Crepuscular
48. Mating behaviour in which a number of males and females mates with each other.
Polygynandry
Pair Bonding
Migration
Exogenous
49. Having from birth; occurring naturally rather than being learned
Innate
Geomagnetic Cues
Crepuscular
Territory
50. Behaviors that have been developed by experience rather than by having them from birth
Learned
Polygynandry
Hierarchy
Exogenous