• Palisades Charter High

• AP BIOLOGY AP Biology

Period: _____ Date: _________________ Topic 8.1: Responses to the Environment/Animal Behavior Student Learning Guide (v2.0) Getting started: ● Go to learn-biology.com, then AP Bio v2.0, then Unit 8, Ecology ● Start with “Topic 8.1: Fixed Action Patterns and Behavior Genes.” ● If you’re submitting this electronically to your instructor, please type your answers in blue, red, or any other color your instructor suggests. ● As you go, click on this ❑ to change it to ☑ Topic 8.1: Fixed Action Patterns and Behavior Genes 1. Read the Introduction. 2. Read “Fixed Action Patterns.” As you read, complete all the interactive activities. 3. Take the quiz “Fixed Action Patterns, Checking Understanding.” SUMMARIZING TASK 1: You’re wandering around town with a friend. First, you go to an aquarium store. There’s a tank with a male three-spined stickleback. As you look at it, a white pickup truck with bright red stripe parks outside the shop. The fish goes wild. Your friend is bewildered. Explain what happened. SUMMARIZING TASK 2: You’re at the beach with your younger sibling. You’ve brought binoculars, and you’re looking at a colony of gulls in the nearby rocks. You’re watching the chicks peck at the red spot on the parents’ bills. Your younger sibling says “That’s so cool. How do the chicks know what to do?” Explain it to them. 4. Read “Behavior can have a genetic basis, and can evolve over time.” As you read, complete all of the interactive activities. Then answer the following questions (in the next column) 4a. What are circadian rhythms? 4b. Explain the diagram below, and how it provides evidence for the genetic basis of behavior. If you know the paradigm, this is a great chance for you to flex yo