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Innate Behavior
Taxis, Kenisis, and FAP's
Response
A single specific reaction to a stimulus.
Levels of Organization
Molecules, cells, group of cells, organism, populatio, community, ecosystem, and biosphere.
Characteristics of Life
growth, reproduction, dna, cells, and react to environment
Habituation
a process by which an animal decreases or stops its response to a repetitive stimulus
Four Steps of Evolution
Variation, Environmental Pressure, Natural Selection, and Reproduction.
Learned Behavior
Habituation, Trial and Error, Imprinting, Insight, and Classical conditioning
Scientific Method
observation, hypothesis, test, conclusion, retest, and theory
adaptation
any inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival
Science Def.
an organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world
Theory of Lamark
Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
fossils
preserved remains of ancient organisms
Evolution
change over time
Classical Conditioning
when an animal makes a connection between a stimulus and some kind of reward or punishment
Insight Learning
when an animal applies something it has already learned to a new situation
fitness
an organism's ability to survive and reproduce
Homologous structures
structures that have different mature forms but develop from the same embrio
Stimulus
any kind of signal that carries information and can be detected
natural selection
results in changes in the inherited characteristics of a population
3 Evolutionists
Lamark, Wallace, and Darwin
Theory Def.
a well-supported hypothesis that has been tested many times

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