BIO153H5 Final: BIO153 Final Exam Review Winter 2015 – Chapter 51
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Bio153 final exam review winter 2015 chapter 51. Altruism: selflessness; behavior that reduces an individual"s fitness while increasing the fitness of another individual. Associative learning: the acquired ability to associate one environmental feature (such as a color) with another (such as danger). Behavior: individually, an action carried out by muscles or glands under control of the nervous system in response to a stimulus; collectively, the sum of an animal"s responses to external and internal stimuli. Behavioral ecology: the study of the evolution of and ecological basis for animal behavior. Coefficient of relatedness: the fraction of genes that, on average, are shared by two individuals. Cognition: the process of knowing that may include awareness, reasoning, recollection, and judgment. Cognitive map: a neural representation of the abstract spatial relationships between objects in an animal"s surroundings. Communication: in animal behavior, a process involving transmission of, reception of, and response to signals.
