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Chapter 4: L5 / L6

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  • What is an "Environment Stimilus" ? (3)
    1- causes a reaction in a living thing 2- stimuli can be internal or external 3- plural: stimuli
  • What did George Mendell notice?
    diffrent characteristics in peas (stems, pods, leaves, lowers...)
  • What is this?
    Fingerprint
  • What are the 3 ways by which animals can respond to their environment's stimilus? (3)
    Behaviors / instincts / learned behaviors
  • Give an example of a behaviour that is a response/ reaction to external environemt
    Turtle: pulls its ead in
  • Define "Behavior" (2)
    Response to the environment/ the way animals act
  • High tide / low tide
    Ocean water
  • Inherited characteristics of plants, example, The prickly pear cactus: (3(
    -Sharp spines (long/short) - paddle flattened stems - stems: waxy covering
  • What animal is this?
    Hedgehog
  • Hibernation - definition and 5 examples
    State of rest / inactivity - snakes, bears, bats, marmoths, lizards, bats..
  • Give an exmple of an animal that does something that is learning and instinct combined?
    Instinct: the ability to recognize the song / Learned behaviour: to sing the song
  • Give an example of an internal stimilus:
    Hunger
  • Talk about human beings' inherited charactericteristics :
    Height (tall/ short) / eye colour / hair colour
  • Heredity
    Science that studies the passing of characteristics from parents to offspring
  • Animals can respond to their environment by behaviors. Give 2 examples.
    Response to the environment stimilus: turtle pulls its head / Response to internal stimilus: huger -> get food
  • Who is George Mendell? (4)
    - Monk - mid 19th century(1800s) -noticed that peas inherit their characteristics from their parents -father of genetics
  • Define "Environment"
    Everything that surrounds a living thing
  • How is human language both an instinct and learned?
    Inherit: The ability to understand language / learned behaviors: words, grammar, sentences..
  • Characteristics
    Qualities of an organism
  • Who is "the father of genetics"?
    George Mendel
  • Define "Instincts"
    Inherited behaviors
  • What is a "Learned behaviour" ? (3)
    1- develops a result of training 2- experience 3- interracting with the environment
  • Talk about animals' inherited characteristics:
    Zebras: Black and white stripes (fingerprint) / Manes (short and stand on their necks)
  • Why do organisms need the characteristics that they inherited from their parents?
    To survive the environment
  • Give 4 examples of anima instincts
    Sucking in water to keep cold (sea stars) - Hibernation (snakes, bears, marmot) - migration - Protection (hedgehog- porcupine)
  • Give an example of a learned behaviour of "cubs"
    pounce of their mother's tails - teaches them how to pounce on animals