BIOL 1902 Lectures 1 – 5 Exam Questions With Correct Answers

BIOL 1902 Lectures 1 – 5 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers

camouflage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-concealment that hides the animal
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from possible predators
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cryptic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-motionless
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background matching - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-matching with their
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surroundings to blend in | | | |




ie. american bittern
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Forest: light creates speckled pattern on ground (ruffed grouse blends
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in)


Mimic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-when one thing resembles another to
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blend in |




moulting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-shedding feathers
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, Disruptive patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-color patterns that breaks
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up shape of the animal (ie. canada goose - chin strap, songbirds - eye
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stripes)


Masquerade - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-body shape resembles something
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animal is not (aka background mimicry)
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Angled wing butterfly - dead leaf mimicry
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Bi-coloration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-2 different colors (ie. whirligig
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beetles (circles in water) - black on top, white on the bottom
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Back swimmers: white on top, black on bottom (swim upside down)
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Countershade (or self-shadow concealment) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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uses their color to go from 3D to 2D to appear flatter and blend in with
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background


Startle patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-brightly colored pattern meant
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to startle predator (underwing moths open wings to reveal bright
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coloration)


Eye spots - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-startle pattern (sometimes purposely
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visible to make animal look larger than life - eyed elater + eastern tiger
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swallowtail)