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 what the tit-for-tat strategy is in
relation to the prisoner’s dilemma.
2) Be sure that you understand Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning. Make sure
you know people like Pavlov, Skinner, Thorndike and Garcia and how they contributed to
learning. Make sure you know what an appetitive stimulus is and what an aversive stimulus is.
3) Why do young male Superb Fairy Wrens act as "helpers-at-the-nest" and will help feed their
younger brothers and sisters?
4) Who are the Yomybato and the Yanomamo? Who are the Yanomamo most likely to engage
in negative reciprocity with?
5) Why might Pied Wagtails allow satellites onto their territories?
6) How do the following animals migrate: Sea Turtles, Monarch Butterflies, and Indigo
Buntings?
7) 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).
8) Be able to recognize examples of imitation, copying, local enhancement, and social
facilitation are.
9) What factors are important in home range size of side-blotched lizards?
10) Make sure you know which examples of animal behavior are due to cultural transmission,
artificial/natural selection, and individual learning.
11) What affects the migration behavior of: Red-eyed Vireos, European Blackbirds, and Fox
Sparrows?
12) What’s the difference between an ultimate and proximate answer or explanation (make sure
you can recognize them from an example)?
13) What did we learn about Pumkinseed fish personalities?
14) 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.
15) How do human mate choices differ in terms of what females are looking for and what males
are looking for?
16) How does kin selection theory explain child abuse and whether you will get money to go to
college or not from a step parent?
17) How does “wealth” affect family ties in humans and in acorn woodpeckers?
Mark’s Topics:
Neurobiology: Proximate causes, Ultimate causes, Hormones, target cells, Activational effects,
organizational effects, ectysone, juvenile hormone, neuron, cell body, dendrite, axon, reflex,
action potential, resting potential, threshold potential, chemical synapse, know the parts of the
brain, limbic system, short term and long term memory, neural plasticity, unihemispheric sleep,
single genes, knockout genes
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
Sexual Selection and Mating Systems: Intrasexual and intersexual relations, Bateman’s principle,
Know the four evolutionary models for mate choice: direct benefits, sensory exploitation, good
genes, and runaway selection. Parasite resistance hypothesis, symmetry and good genes, sexual
imprinting, Red deer assessment, interference, cuckoldry, monogamy, polygyny, polyandry,
polygynandry, male assistance hypothesis, lek, female defense, PTM (what is it?)
Foraging: search image, optimal foraging theory, Reto Zach and the northwestern crow,
Marginal value theorem, risk-sensitive foraging, specific nutrient restraints, public information
models, producers, scroungers, camouflage, cryptic coloring, aposematic coloring, dilution
effect, Why approach a predator?
Aggression and Play: dominance hierarchies, (rhesus monkeys, vultures, gorillas), costs, benefits
of the hierarchy, bourgeois, reverse bourgeois, sequential assessment, corticosteroids, serotonin,
bystander effects, role reversal , play behavior, ESS