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| Any action designed for self defence, to establish position in hierarchy, or for defence of territory. |
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| Activities that animals perform in response to internal and external stimuli |
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| Internal timing mechanism in plants and animals |
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| Formation of specialised groups to carry out different functions in an animal society. |
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| Refers to a pattern of activity following a 24-hour cycle. |
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| Type of learned behaviour in which an animal forms an association between two stimuli, one significant and one insifnificant, so that the response normally associated with the significant stimulas occurs when onlt the insignificant stimulus is present. |
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| Transmission of information between organisms. |
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| Refers to combined action of a group of organisms to achieve an outcome different from that achieved by an individual |
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| Plants that flower regardless of the length of day |
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| Technique in which animals emit sounds and detect the presence of objects by the echoes produced as the sound is reflected |
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| Study of animal behaviour |
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| Response of a shoot or root to gravity |
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| Type of learned behaviour in which the response to a repeated stimulus gradually descreases |
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| Also called solar tracked: ability of some plants to move so that they remain either perpendicular or parallel to the sun's rays throughout the day. |
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| Form of rapid and irreversible learning occurring during the early stage of an animal's life. |
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| Innate or inborn behaviour |
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| Behaviour that is essentially the same in all members of a spcecies and which can occur without an individual having had prior experience of the behaviour; previously known as instinctive |
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| Type of learned behaviour in which an animal applies previous experience to the solution of a new problem |
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| Inter-specific competition |
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| Competition for resources in an ecosystem involving members of different species |
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| Intra-specific competition |
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| Competition for resources in an ecosystem involving members of the same species |
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| Plants that flower when day-length increases (night-length shortens) to a particular critical point, generally in late spring or early summer. |
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| Refers to the predictable movements of organisms over large distances, which may occur once in the lifetime of an organism |
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| Plant movement in which direction of movement is independent of direction of stimulus causing the movement |
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| Form of trial and error learning |
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| Hierarchy within an animal group that reflects different ranks |
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| Chemicals secreted by some animals to communicate with other members of the species: chemical messengers |
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| Refers to the relative lengths of day and night in a 24-hour period. |
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| Response of plants to particular periods of light and dark in terms of flowering or germination of seeds |
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| Movement of plant in response to light |
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| Patterns of behaviour in young animals that appear to provide practice of behaviours that are seen in adults |
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| Bebaviour patterns associated with courtship, mating and care of the young |
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| Behaviours that are repeated at regular intervals, such as feeding or sleeping behaviours |
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| Plant that flowers when day-length shortens (night lengthens) to a particular critical point, generally in late summer, autumn or winter |
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| The different ranks of importance or dominance within an animal group |
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| Interactions that involce two or more individuals and may involve cooperatoin, as in mating, or conflict as in defending a territory or competing for a mate |
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| Also called heliotropism; ability of some plants to move so that they remain either perpendicular or parallel to the sun's rays throughout the day |
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| Behaviour associated with defending an area against other individuals, usually of the same species |
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| A plant response to contact with a solid object |
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| A directional growth response of a plant to an environmental stimulus |
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