Claytonia virginica is a woodland spring herb with flowers that vary from white, to pale pink, to bright pink. Slugs prefer to eat pink-flowering over white-flowering plants (due to chemical differences between the two), and plants experiencing severe herbivory are more likely to die. The bees that pollinate this plant also prefer pink to white flowers, so that Claytonia with pink flowers have greater relative fruit set than Claytonia with white flowers. A researcher observes that the percentage of different flower colors remains stable in the study population from year to year. Given no other information, if the researcher removes all slugs from the study population, what do you expect to happen to the distribution of flower colors in the population over time?

#Question id: 3480

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following statements about learning and behavior is correct?

A) Operant conditioning involves associating a behavior with a reward or punishment.

B) Associative learning involves linking one stimulus with another.

C) Behavior can be modified by learning, but some apparent learning is due to maturation.

D) Imprinting is a learned behavior with an innate component acquired during a sensitive period.

#Question id: 3479

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following could be classified as habituation?

A) You enter a room and hear a fan motor. After a period of time, you are no longer aware of the motorʹs noise.

B) You hear a horn while driving your car. You step on the brakes but notice the sound came from a side street. You resume your previous speed.

C) One morning you awake to a beep-beep-beep from a garbage truck working on a new early morning schedule. The next week the garbage truck arrives at the same time and makes the same noise, but does not wake you up.

#Question id: 3478

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Natural selection may favour the evolution of foraging behaviours by predator that

#Question id: 3477

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT?

#Question id: 3476

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

The genetic relatedness (r) of an individual to brother is 0.50, according to Hamilton’s Rule, only if the fitness benefit is

#Question id: 3475

#Unit 11. Evolution and Behavior

Which of the following condition is not favour polygyny?