Big Idea 3 - Genetics and Information
Communication
Required Reading
●Holtzclaw: 249-260
Resources
●CrashCourse - Animal Behavior
●Bozeman - Information Exchange
●Bozeman - Signal Transduction and Gene Expression
●Bozeman - Cell Communication
●CrashCourse - Great Glands - Your Endocrine System
●CrashCourse - The Nervous System
Be Able To
3.40 Analyze data that indicate how organisms exchange information in response to internal changes and external cues, and which can change behavior.
3.41 Create a representation that describes how organisms exchange information in response to internal changes and external cues, and which can result in changes in behavior.
3.42 Describe how organisms exchange information in response to internal changes or environmental cues.
3.43 Construct an explanation, based on scientific theories and models, about how nervous systems detect external and internal signals, transmit and integrate information, and produce responses.
3.44 Describe how nervous systems detect external and internal signals.
3.45 Describe how nervous systems transmit information.
3.46 Describe how the vertebrate brain integrates information to produce a response.
3.47 Create a visual representation of complex nervous systems to describe/explain how these systems detect external and internal signals, transmit and integrate information, and produce responses.
3.48 Create a visual representation to describe how nervous systems detect external and internal signals.
3.49 Create a visual representation to describe how nervous systems transmit information.
3.50 Create a visual representation to describe how the vertebrate brain integrates information to produce a response.
Questions
- Explain how predatory warning is an exchange of information from an external cue.
- What is a fight or flight response and in what situations do animals display this behavior?
- What is an example of or a mechanism used by organisms for communication?
- How do plants use communication with insects to ensure reproductive success?
- Why do animals mark their territory? Give an example from a specific species.
- Why do male birds put on such an elaborate display for females?
- What is the importance of pack behavior?
- What is considered a learned behavior and how does this pertain to natural selection?
- Explain what cooperative behavior is and how some organisms benefit from it.
- Draw a typical neuron and label it
- Explain the function of the schwann cells.
- Briefly describe the movement of action potential from one neuron to another in 3 or 4 steps
- What role do gated ion channels play in neuron communication?
- Which membrane proteins use ATP to maintain membrane potential?
- What is a neurotransmitter and what does it do?
- Name 4 regions of the brain and describe their function