Exam 8: Life History Patterns

An individual that experiences a sex reversal during its lifetime is a

Individual organisms that possess both male and female organs are considered ________.

Habitats that are variable in time or short-lived will favour ________ strategists.

In general, parental investment has a positive correlation with the number of young produced.

According to Grime's model of life history variation in plants, trees and shrubs are generally categorized as CS strategists.

Direct, aggressive competition among individuals for the opportunity to mate with the opposite sex is characteristic of

An r-strategist is characterized by

An individual's fitness is defined by the number of offspring it produces.

Little parental care is required by ________ offspring.

Female choice is most apparent in situations in which males congregate at a lek.

The reproductive strategy in which relatively few young are produced at repeated intervals during an individual's life is referred to as

In birds, siblicide is more likely to occur when the hatching of eggs is asynchronous rather than synchronous.

Established plants are unable to select a new habitat.

________ is the killing of one sibling by another.

The process in which organisms actively choose a specific location to inhabit is called ________.

Asynchronous hatching

The true measure of an organism's reproductive success is

The mode of reproduction in which individuals produce fewer young at one time and repeat reproduction multiple times throughout their life is known as ________.

________ plants are those with separate male and female individuals.

A female exhibits two major approaches in choosing a mate: the phenotypic characteristics of the mate or the