Final - BIOL 1902 Questions With Complete Solutions
70% Correct Answers of 150 species had offspring from a male
outside of the pair.
A chickadee's hippocampus Correct Answers grows larger
before winter for storing/retrieval of food
Adaptations for locating food during flight Correct Answers
Often soars and uses tilting motions. Flight mode is almost
entiredly gliding and soaring. Using low-level air movement or
high-altitude thermals. Teeter during flight - allowing them to
fly slowly and low as they can pick up different thermals.
Vultures tend to communally roost (number roost together). This
allows certain birds who didn't find much food to follow other
birds who found food when morning comes.
Adaptations for shade Correct Answers large surface area for
better capturing sunlight (e.g. round-leaved orchid), more
chlorophyll b, common underground root, climb on top of other
plants, bloom earlier in the spring
Adaptations for too much sun Correct Answers The leaves
have a small surface area, that are angled (45 degrees) so they
catch some sunlight but not a huge amount (E.g. buttercup).
Some leaves are highly dissected leaves (surface area is small
with shoots) and a reduced surface area
adaptations for wind pollination Correct Answers light weight,
usw silk parachutes, and are small size.
,Advantages of seed dispersal Correct Answers Avoids
crowding and competition, Prevents spreading of disease or
parasites, Prevents in-breeding, and Saves some of the offspring
from being eaten
Advantages to big, thin, flat, and parallel to the ground leaves
Correct Answers Less energy is spent building support tissues,
Light reaches photosynthetic cells more quickly, Suppresses
competition (other plants can't shade them)
Advantages/Disadvantages of Advertising Correct Answers
Predators and parasitoids can hear you, Sound carries a long
way, Cheaters called satellite males can exploit your efforts.
When a female hears the male singing, the hiding animal jumps
out and prevents the male actually calling from having the
female. Cheaters can be beat up by the males.
Aerial displays Correct Answers often done by insects
Aggressive response Correct Answers attacking using bills,
bombardment - puke on people, mobbing
Alders Correct Answers have root nodules that contain bacteria
that converts unusable nitrogen to useful nitrogen. (fix nitrogen)
and in return get something from the plant.
All male mergenser's Correct Answers leave for the summer,
and come back in the winter
Altricial Correct Answers (stay in the nest) tend to hatch at the
same time.
,Altricial birds Correct Answers hatch in a healthy age. Most
defensive just before the hatchlings leave the nest, and when
they hatch at 14 days
american toad Correct Answers lay their eggs in strings, in the
water (make no effort with parental care)
Amplexus Correct Answers hold the male gives to the females,
also used as stimulation (if it doesn't "feel good" females can
throw them off)
Amplexus Correct Answers used by frogs and toads during
mating to hold the other in place
Anemochory Correct Answers wind dispersal of seeds
Anemophily Correct Answers wind pollination
Antler displays Correct Answers can defuse aggression. Know
that moose smaller antlers can be dominated by moose with
larger antlers. They learn the size of their antlers by sparring
Antler sizes Correct Answers effects the balance of moose.
One antler tends to fall of faster than the other, which can lead to
moose to try and break off the other antler.
Antlers Correct Answers are ornaments only used for display.
At the end of mating season antlers fall off and moose have to
regrow them. Antlers change size and shape with age
, Antlers Correct Answers start growing in April and finish by
the end of august
Ants Correct Answers have different castes (get food, defend
colony etc.)
Arrenurus Correct Answers water mites
Asexual Correct Answers don't need a partner to reproduce
Asynchronous hatching Correct Answers May lessen feeding
stress on parents, Reduce the odds of losing entire brood, Ensure
survival of some young in times of food stress, Even during food
stress oldest might eat youngest
Atlantic Puffin Correct Answers Some birds have ornaments.
Badges of status/maturity. Two years per groove on the bill.
Females will choose males with no fewer than two grooves.
(older means he's a survivor)
Autotrophic Correct Answers make their own food
Baby clams Correct Answers ectoparasites of fish gills, and
suck their blood. Glochidium.
Baculum Correct Answers penis bone
Band-winged grasshoppers Correct Answers Crepitate.
Barnacles Correct Answers are sedentary, and hermaphroditic.
Have a penis, when they're on rocks the penis walks around and
70% Correct Answers of 150 species had offspring from a male
outside of the pair.
A chickadee's hippocampus Correct Answers grows larger
before winter for storing/retrieval of food
Adaptations for locating food during flight Correct Answers
Often soars and uses tilting motions. Flight mode is almost
entiredly gliding and soaring. Using low-level air movement or
high-altitude thermals. Teeter during flight - allowing them to
fly slowly and low as they can pick up different thermals.
Vultures tend to communally roost (number roost together). This
allows certain birds who didn't find much food to follow other
birds who found food when morning comes.
Adaptations for shade Correct Answers large surface area for
better capturing sunlight (e.g. round-leaved orchid), more
chlorophyll b, common underground root, climb on top of other
plants, bloom earlier in the spring
Adaptations for too much sun Correct Answers The leaves
have a small surface area, that are angled (45 degrees) so they
catch some sunlight but not a huge amount (E.g. buttercup).
Some leaves are highly dissected leaves (surface area is small
with shoots) and a reduced surface area
adaptations for wind pollination Correct Answers light weight,
usw silk parachutes, and are small size.
,Advantages of seed dispersal Correct Answers Avoids
crowding and competition, Prevents spreading of disease or
parasites, Prevents in-breeding, and Saves some of the offspring
from being eaten
Advantages to big, thin, flat, and parallel to the ground leaves
Correct Answers Less energy is spent building support tissues,
Light reaches photosynthetic cells more quickly, Suppresses
competition (other plants can't shade them)
Advantages/Disadvantages of Advertising Correct Answers
Predators and parasitoids can hear you, Sound carries a long
way, Cheaters called satellite males can exploit your efforts.
When a female hears the male singing, the hiding animal jumps
out and prevents the male actually calling from having the
female. Cheaters can be beat up by the males.
Aerial displays Correct Answers often done by insects
Aggressive response Correct Answers attacking using bills,
bombardment - puke on people, mobbing
Alders Correct Answers have root nodules that contain bacteria
that converts unusable nitrogen to useful nitrogen. (fix nitrogen)
and in return get something from the plant.
All male mergenser's Correct Answers leave for the summer,
and come back in the winter
Altricial Correct Answers (stay in the nest) tend to hatch at the
same time.
,Altricial birds Correct Answers hatch in a healthy age. Most
defensive just before the hatchlings leave the nest, and when
they hatch at 14 days
american toad Correct Answers lay their eggs in strings, in the
water (make no effort with parental care)
Amplexus Correct Answers hold the male gives to the females,
also used as stimulation (if it doesn't "feel good" females can
throw them off)
Amplexus Correct Answers used by frogs and toads during
mating to hold the other in place
Anemochory Correct Answers wind dispersal of seeds
Anemophily Correct Answers wind pollination
Antler displays Correct Answers can defuse aggression. Know
that moose smaller antlers can be dominated by moose with
larger antlers. They learn the size of their antlers by sparring
Antler sizes Correct Answers effects the balance of moose.
One antler tends to fall of faster than the other, which can lead to
moose to try and break off the other antler.
Antlers Correct Answers are ornaments only used for display.
At the end of mating season antlers fall off and moose have to
regrow them. Antlers change size and shape with age
, Antlers Correct Answers start growing in April and finish by
the end of august
Ants Correct Answers have different castes (get food, defend
colony etc.)
Arrenurus Correct Answers water mites
Asexual Correct Answers don't need a partner to reproduce
Asynchronous hatching Correct Answers May lessen feeding
stress on parents, Reduce the odds of losing entire brood, Ensure
survival of some young in times of food stress, Even during food
stress oldest might eat youngest
Atlantic Puffin Correct Answers Some birds have ornaments.
Badges of status/maturity. Two years per groove on the bill.
Females will choose males with no fewer than two grooves.
(older means he's a survivor)
Autotrophic Correct Answers make their own food
Baby clams Correct Answers ectoparasites of fish gills, and
suck their blood. Glochidium.
Baculum Correct Answers penis bone
Band-winged grasshoppers Correct Answers Crepitate.
Barnacles Correct Answers are sedentary, and hermaphroditic.
Have a penis, when they're on rocks the penis walks around and
