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Animal Behaviour Exam Questions

This document provides sample essay questions for an Advanced Higher Biology exam on animal behavior. Question 3a asks students to discuss imprinting and fixed action patterns, using examples of named species. Imprinting is when young animals form an attachment to the first moving object they encounter, often their mother, within a critical period after hatching or birth. This helps ensure the young animal follows and learns from their parent.

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Animal Behaviour Exam Questions

This document provides sample essay questions for an Advanced Higher Biology exam on animal behavior. Question 3a asks students to discuss imprinting and fixed action patterns, using examples of named species. Imprinting is when young animals form an attachment to the first moving object they encounter, often their mother, within a critical period after hatching or birth. This helps ensure the young animal follows and learns from their parent.

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Animal Behaviour

Advanced Higher Biology


Student Notes

Imprinting

Animal Behaviour Essay Questions


These are from old style Advanced Higher Biology Papers.
In your exam you will be unlikely to get an essay on Animal behaviour.
Each Essay is worth 15 marks.
Use these for revision completed essays handed in will be marked.

1. Behaviour, like other adaptations, has a genetic component and is shaped by


natural selection.
Discuss this statement under the following headings:
a. natural selection of behaviour patterns
b. single gene effect on behaviour
c. Behavioural adaptation to human influence.

2. In many animal species, the male is the showier sex.


Discuss this statement in relation to sexual behaviour. Use examples of named
animal species to illustrate your answer.

3. discuss the following aspects of behaviour:


a. imprinting
b. sign stimuli and fixed action patterns
Use examples of named species to illustrate your answer.

(7 marks)
(8 marks)

4. discuss the effects of social behaviour on survival under the following headings:
a. selfish genes
(5
marks)
b. altruism
(5 marks)
c. kin selection
(5 marks)

5. discuss social organisation under the following headings:


a. social hierarchy in primates
marks)
b. avoidance of inbreeding in social mammals

(10
(5 marks)

6. Describe foraging behaviour in animals.


(5 marks)
Discuss some of the factors and problems involved in the observation and
recording of behaviour.
(10 marks)

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