Bio Terms
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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