MCQ Bank
__________ takes the nerve impulse towards the cell body.
- A) Dendron
- B) Axon
- C) Mitochondria
- D) Tentacles
Ability of an animal’s nervous system to perceive, store, process, and use information gathered by sensory receptors called _____________.
- A) Social learning
- B) Humanism
- C) Insight learning
- D) Animal Cognition
The aggressive attacking behavior of male three-spined stickleback fish is an example of ______________.
- A) Flexible Action Potential
- B) Fixed Action Pattern
- C) Flexible Action Pattern
- D) Fixed Action Potential
Gravitation pull of _____________ determines timing of tidal rhythms in marine environments.
- A) earth
- B) sun
- C) moon
- D) star
A stimulus that is strong enough to initiate an impulse is called a __________ .
- A) synapse
- B) signal
- C) impulse
- D) threshold
Cross-fostering study and Twin Studies are the methods to study _________.
- A) genetic disease
- B) gene expression
- C) genetic diversity
- D) genetic variability
Neurons are permiable to ____________ ions.
- A) Na+
- B) Cr3+
- C) Cl-
- D) Al3+
Selective process shaping the history of a behavioural trait explans _____________.
- A) survival cause
- B) proximity cause
- C) ultimate cause
- D) Proximate cause
The ____________ hormone is critical for stimulating male sexual behaviors.
- A) Oxitocin
- B) Prolectin
- C) Estrogen
- D) Testosterone
Which of the following is relevant to instinctive behavior?
- A) Coccon spinning in buterflies
- B) Speaking in humans
- C) Chimpanzee reaching to banana
- D) Squirrel avoiding repeated stimulus such as car horns
Behaviors that are variable with experience are called____________.
- A) Innate Behavior
- B) Territoriality
- C) None of these
- D) Learning Behavior
____________is the affect an individual has on proliferating its own genes by reproducing and helping relatives raise offspring.
- A) Inclusive fitness
- B) Aggregation
- C) Kin selection
- D) Animal societies
Behavior is sum of nervous and ___________ systems.
- A) Excretory
- B) Endocrine
- C) Skeletal
- D) Digestive
Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov conducted his experiments on:
- A) Habituation
- B) Imprinting
- C) Operant Conditioning
- D) Classical Conditioning
By watching their mother, baby ducks learn how to avoid danger and to know what is good to eat. This is an example of___________ behavior.
- A) Innate
- B) Learned
- C) Instinctive
- D) Inborn
Which of the following is the component of behavioral endocrinology?
- A) Lymph
- B) Blood
- C) Enzymes
- D) Hormones
In which of the following fishes reciprocal Altruism could be observed?
- A) Cleaner fish
- B) Carnivorous fish
- C) Scoliodon
- D) Anadromous fish
Maximum parental care is shown by ____________.
- A) Reptiles
- B) Amphibians
- C) Echinoderms
- D) Birds
Message passes through the nerves in the form of __________.
- A) Cell Body
- B) Nerve Impulse
- C) Axon
- D) Dendrite
Which of the following hormones that affects the animal behvious, is not protein or peptide in nature?
- A) Vasopressin
- B) Oxytocin
- C) Testosterone
- D) Prolectin