BIOC54H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Natural Selection, Heritability, European Cooperation In Science And Technology
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Evolutionarily stable strategy - set of rules of behaviour that when adopted by a certain proportion of the population can"t be replaced by any alternative strategy. know how to breed animals, when will animals attack, what characteristics are needed in nature reserves to save endangered species, humane way to house animals, stop damage by pest species Learned it was a good strategy (less likely to be killed by predators) developmental processes (ontogeny [see others doing it so you do it too], genetics) eg - possums play dead because the sight of a predator triggers a physiological response that causes them to lie down and remain motionless. why questions - evolutionary history (origins, change over time) effects on fitness (current or recent function) eg - possums play dead because over evolutionary time, those possums that did play dead were more fit than those that did not www. notesolution. com.