MCAT Bio: Animal Behaviour Review

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MCAT Quiz on MCAT Bio: Animal Behaviour Review, created by aliking on 21/05/2014.
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Question 1

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Which of the following is probably true about dialects?
Answer
  • Allows strangers to create a melting pot of song
  • Has evolved so that prey can distinguish between harmless and dangerous animals
  • Is probably a mechanism of reproductive isolation
  • Occurs when animals tire of the same song

Question 2

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Which of the following is NOT a period in White-crown sparrow song learning?
Answer
  • Pliant song
  • Plastic song
  • Mature song
  • Subsong

Question 3

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Unlike mammals, birds have:
Answer
  • A larynx
  • A syrinx
  • Vocal cords
  • Lungs

Question 4

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Unlike mammals, birds have:
Answer
  • A larynx
  • A syrinx
  • Vocal cords
  • Lungs

Question 5

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Chemical signals are:
Answer
  • Fast traveling
  • Short lasting
  • short-range
  • slow traveling

Question 6

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Killer bees are more deadly than other bees because:
Answer
  • Their venom is much stronger
  • Their stingers are much longer
  • Their reception threshold for alarm pheromone is lower
  • The can sting multiple times

Question 7

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Killer bees are more deadly than other bees because:
Answer
  • Their venom is much stronger
  • Their stingers are much longer
  • Their reception threshold for alarm pheromone is lower
  • The can sting multiple times

Question 8

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Two poisonous species of moths that live in overlapping habitats have a similar coloration. This is an example of:
Answer
  • Mullerian mimicry
  • Batesian mimicry
  • Imitation
  • Habituation

Question 9

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Sexual reproduction is most likely to be seen in:
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  • Extreme altitudes
  • Unstable environments
  • Competitive environments
  • Early colonizers

Question 10

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In a haplodiploid population, r is:
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  • Greater for the mother/daughter relationship than for the father/daughter relationship
  • Greater for the mother/son relationship than for the father/son relationship
  • Greater for the sister/sister relationship than the brother/brother relationship where they have the same father
  • Greater for the niece/maternal aunt relationship than the nephew/maternal aunt relationship
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