Animal Sexuality Behavior

Question

1.what are the costs of sexual selection?

a)mating displays may attract predators

b)genetic variation

c)speciation

d)none of the above

2.Behaviors originate from normal movement patterns, over time behaviors can take

on new meaning and become ritualized.

a)true

b)false

3.Which of the following are common modes of communication?

A)odor

B)sound

C)vision

D)touch

E)All of the above

4.A __ is a group of individuals of the same species, organized in a

cooperative manner that extends beyond sexual behavior.

culture.

A)civilization

B)society

C)patriarchy

5.Sexual selection has been an important cause of

for millions of years

because it has contributed to extraordinarily high species diversity in many groups

of animals.

A)evolution

B)speciation

C)disruptive selection

D)stabilizing selection

6.__ is an action on the part of one organism that alters the probability

of occurrence of behavior patterns in another.

A)Attraction

B)Avoidance

C)Society

D)Communication

7.Why did signals evolve in some animals?

A)Increase fitness of population

B)Increase fitness of individual

C)Decrease in natural selection

D)Decrease fitness of individual

8.Sexual selection is a form of

_ the reproductive success of individuals that acts on phenotypic traits that affect.

A)evolution

B)directional selection

C)stabilizing selection

D)disruptive selection

Answer 1

Hello I don't know if you still need help with these questions, but #1 is none of the above.