Guide 9A Fitness
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Fitness Objectives
Innate Behaviors
Explain what an innate behavior is and provide specific examples of genetically determined behaviors.
Learned Behaviors
Explain what a learned behavior is and provide specific examples of behaviors altered by experiences.
Reproduction
Summarize how sexual reproduction impacts variation, the problems associated with successfully reproducing, and the relationship of reproduction to fitness.
Mating Behaviors
Provide examples of both simple and elaborate animal mating behaviors, and the potential advantages and disadvantages of each.
Sexual Selection
Explain how animals may compete with other member of their sex within their species.
Fitness Quiz
Quiz Directions
Complete all five sections and take the quiz on Canvas.
Use the learning outcomes above to guide your studying.
Fitness Media Piece
Introduced in the Innate Behaviors section of this guide:
This is another opportunity to work on the final portfolio! Last week you populated each of the nine outcomes and may have found some outcomes more challenging than others. For this media assignment you will pick the outcome that you are having the most difficult time filling with three examples of your work, and complete it this week, well before the portfolio is due.
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Select an outcome. Pick one that you only have one piece of work representing, and/or are having a particularly tough time working with. For example, you may only have one example of a Science Skill or Biology Connection: whichever outcome is the most challenging (these are usually different for everyone). Then your hardest work is behind you!
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Upload to Canvas the three pieces of work you will use in your final portfolio to represent this outcome.
If you are not sure how to tackle a challenging outcome, here is our advice:
Look at the descriptors that are listed under the outcome (link below). For examples, under Science Concepts you have:
perception, evidence, prediction, cause & effect, scale, quantity, continuity, change, matter, energy, patterns, systems & models, specimens, collections, tentative & durable, hypotheses, facts, theories, laws, science history, and science fields.
There is a lot to work with here, you could use the assignment where your found patterns in nature; for cause and effect, you could add your quiz response or notes on what causes mutations or what their effects are; you could add your explanation of how scientific knowledge can be both tentative and durable; you could have a collection of natural specimens, and so on.
Once you start thinking of things you have done in this course or other life experiences, you will be able to recall more and more examples.
You may have wondered if the outcomes arrangement of Concepts, Skills, and Connections just applies to science, biology, and animals. The cool thing is that this is how you can approach learning in any discipline. There are generally concepts to understand, skills to carry out, and connections that apply the field to the real world. A great practice is to go to an expert in a field and ask what concepts, skills, and connections you need to know, and once you collect and organize this knowledge, you are on your own path to mastery as well.
Media Piece Directions
To be completed after taking the quiz on Canvas.
Upload your three sample of work that complete one of the nine outcomes in the final portfolio.
Animal Biology Portfolio
Portfolio Directions
Once you are completed with this guide’s media piece, continue adding your work to the final portfolio.
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Research Question 9: Why does it behave like this?
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9A: Fitness