Reproductive Adaptations of Animals

What are adaptations?

• Sharp reduction in population size due to an environmental disaster, often results in loss of variation

• When individuals survive and reproduce at a higher rate than others in the same population

• Process by which populations have become adapted to their environment over time

• Specialized structures and behaviors that aid in survival of an organism

What is heredity?

• A mistake or change in DNA
• When all the members of a population have similar genes and traits
• The variety of genes in a DNA sequence
• Passing of genes from parents to offspring

Which would be a display of reproductive behavior?

• foraging
• growling
• courtship
• estivation

What is the name of an area that an animal defends from other members of its species?

• niche
• habitat
• territory
• ecosystem

Used by social insects such as bees, ants, and termites to communicate.

• ecosystem
• pheromones
• internal stimuli
• innate behavior

What is innate behavior?

• Something that helps an animal communicate
• A way an animal is categorized
• Learned behavior
• An ability that you are born with

What is an example of innate behavior?

• A person solving a math problem
• A spider spinning its web
• A dog knowing to walk on a leash without running away
• A puppy doing tricks

A trait that helps a living thing survive.

• instinct
• mimicry
• camouflage
• adaptation

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Behavioral adaptations can be...

• instinctive or learned through experience.
• a structural adaptation.
• can not be learned.
• really hard for animals.

A pattern of innate behaviors.

• Behavior 
• Innate behavior
• Instinct
• Stimulus