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Organismal Behavior

Students must know....

How behaviors are the result of natural selection.
How innate and learned behaviors increase survival and reproductive fitness.
How organisms use communication to increase fitness.
The role of auxin in plants.
How phototrophism and photoperiodism use changes in the environment to modify plant growth and behavior.
How plants respond to attacks by herbivores and pathogens.
Advantages of asexual vs. sexual reproduction.
Various reproductive strategies in response to energy availability.
Timing and coordination of reproduction may be triggered by environmental cues as well as pheromones.
The role of altruism and inclusive fitness in kin selection.

Organismal Behavior Curriculum Map

Reading Guides

Chapter 46: Reproduction

Chapter 40: Plant Tropisms

Chapter 40: Obtaining Food

Chapter 39/49: Circadian & Circannual Rhythm

Chapter 40: Homeostasis

Chapter 51: Animal Behavior

Lectures

Innate vs. Learned Behavior

Food Obtaining Behavior

Sexual & Parenting Behavior

Plant Tropisms

Behaviors Governed by Circadian & Circannual Rhythm

Behavior & Homeostasis

Lab Materials

Animal Behavior Lab

Chi Squared Bozeman Podcast

Chi Square Critical Values Table

Video Assignment

PBS: What Plants Talk About

Bozeman Podcasts

Animal Behavior

Behavior & Natural Selection

Life Requires Free Energy

Thermoregulation

Response to External Environments

Homeostatic Loops

Homeostasis Hugs

Homeostasis Review

Positive & Negative Feedback Loops

Mechanisms of Timing & Control

Information Exchange

Chi-Square Test

Standard Deviation

Standard Error

Animal Behavior Lab

Online Resources

Mouse Actogram Model

NIH: Circadian Rhythm Fact Sheet

Clockwork Genes: Discoveries in Biological Time

Crash Course: Circadian Rhythm

PBS: What Plants Talk About

Plant Trophisms

TED Talk: Insect Reproduction

TED Talk: The Birds & Bees

Honey Bee Waggle Dance

HHMI How Animals Use Sound to Communicate

Virtual Lab Links

Animal Behavior