LIFESCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 45: Learning, Eusociality, Reciprocal Altruism
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Answers rely on an interplay between genes and the environment. Influence of genes is innate behaviors, those that are instinctive and carried out regardless of earlier experience. The fixed action pattern is a stereotyped behavior. Displays: which are patterns of behavior that are species specific and tend to follow the same sequence of actions whenever they are repeated. Fixed action patterns (faps): meaning that they consist of a sequence of behaviors that, once triggered, is followed through to completion. The nervous system processes stimuli and evokes behaviors. Specialized sensory receptors or groups of sensory receptors that respond to important signals in the environment. Breeding experiments can help determine the degree to which a behavior is genetic. The nervous and endocrine systems that in part shape behaviors are the product to genetic instructions. Molecular techniques provide new ways of testing the roles of genes in behavior. Non-associative learning occurs without linking two events.
