Exam 4: Behavioral Genetics

Dingemanse and colleagues (2002) found a positive correlation between a mother's exploratory behavior and that of her offspring. Which of the following can be concluded from this result?

Which of the following is true of genomic approaches in the study of behavior?

You measure narrow-sense heritability for three traits and find that it is 0.1 for trait A, 0.5 for trait B, and 0.8 for trait C. Which of the following can you conclude from your data?

What data allowed researchers to conclude that there was a significant gene-environment interaction affecting larval foraging behavior in fruit flies?

A set of full-sibling juvenile wolf spiders was divided into two groups. One set was reared in low-temperature conditions, while the other set was reared in high-temperature conditions until they were adults. As adults, each individual was exposed to a predator at a moderate temperature and the groups exhibited very different escape behavior-those reared in low-temperature conditions fled sooner than those reared in high-temperature conditions. Which of the following can be concluded from these data?

A researcher measured the aggressive behavior of genetic clones reared in three different environments and found the following results. This is an illustration of what?

Which of the following is evidence of behavioral personalities?

Which of the following allows a researcher to conclude that environmental factors affect behavior?

Consider two genotypes 1 and 2 exposed to two environments A and B in which total activity level of individuals was recorded. In environment A, genotype 1 had higher activity levels than genotype 2. In environment B, genotype 2 had higher activity level than genotype 1. This pattern is an example of what?

You measure the narrow-sense heritability of two behavioral traits. For trait A, heritability is 0.1. For trait B, it is 0.6. For both traits, phenotypic variation is identical. Which of the following can be concluded from these data?

A parent-offspring regression of singing activity behavior (measured as rate of song production) in cardinals results in a slope of 0.6 while a parent-offspring regression on aggressive behavior in lizards (measured as rate of aggressive interactions ) results in a slope of 0.2. Now imagine conducting a selection experiment on both species in which you only allow individual cardinals with the highest singing activity and only lizards with the highest aggressive behavior to mate for several generations. Describe the predicted changes in singing behavior in the selected cardinal population versus the predicted change in aggression in the selected lizard population after 10 generations.

Which of the following is required in order to conduct a QTL analysis?

Which of the following is NOT true about genomic approaches in behavior?

Which of the following observations prompted Margaret Bastock's research on fly courtship in "yellow" flies

Both Kenneth Ross's research on social behavior in fire ants (1997) and Isadora Bielsky's research on the function of the AVPRiA receptor in mice……

Define animal personality then explain how the existence of personalities indicates that genes can limit behavioral flexibility. What personalities did Jannis Liedtke's research team study in jumping spiders?

Which of the following does NOT provide clear evidence for a genetic basis of behavior?

Which of the following could Margaret Bastock conclude from her research examining the courtship behavior of wild type and "yellow" forms of fruit flies?

Which of the following was used as evidence by Dingemanse and colleagues (2002) to conclude that exploratory behavior in great tits was a heritable trait?

Which of the following is NOT associated with the avian song circuit?