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SOCIOBIOLOGY
1. In many species, female mammals live in herds. Which of these mating system can you see in such herds ?
A) Males capturing food to lure females
B) A lek mating system
C) Males competing for clusters of receptive females
D) Territorial defense of feeding sites by
males E) Males sorting out female in favour
2. If members in the same species have cooperative associations between each other, this action is called.................. ?
A) Sociobiology B) Society C) Community D)Social activity E)Social behavior
3. What is the main factor for interaction of members in a society ?
A) Interaction
B) Cooperation
C) Competition
D) Communication
E) Visual stimuli
4. When a baby who cannot talk about anything is hungry, he begins to cry and his mother feeds him. Her behavior is an example of ................... ?
A) Cooperation
B) Social behavior
C) Social activity
D) Animal behavior E) Social organization
5. Female larva usually develop to sterile worker. How can it develop to a new
queen?
A) The existing queen does not produce sufficient queen substances.
B) The hive is destroyed by old queen
C) If workers rebel against old queen
D) If old queen can not collect the sperms E) If drones don't want to mate with old queen
6. Why does a social species use communication signals ?
A) To interact with each other
B) To obtain knowledge from others
C) To express feelings and knowledge
D) To benefit both signaler and receiver E) All of above
7. Insects use pheromones to obtain information about fond and danger because
A) They can't speak
B) Their hearing ability is not developed
C) They don't have developed visual stimuli
D) They are very sensitive to chemical substances E) They don't have visual receptors
8. What is the reason of competition between old and new queen in a honeybee society ?
A) To caring larvae
B) To cleaning hive
C) lack of communication
D) overcrowding in hive
E) being low administrating capacity
9. What is the function of queen substances?
A) Returning workers to the hive
B) Protection of larvae against contamination of bacteria
C) Social coordination in the hive is achieved
D) Mating drones and queen
E) Prevention of development of new queen
10. Which of the followings one differentiate vertebrate society from insect society ?
A) Hierarchy does not depend on the skills of its individual in vertebrate society ?
B) Mother reinforces the initial of its offspring in the society of vertebrate ?
C) Individuals are genetically related to each other
D) All of the females in a vertebrate society
are fertile E) All of above
11. What is the function of drones in honeybee society?
A) Taking care of larvae
B) Collecting pollen grains
C) Cleaning the hive
D) Protecting the queen E) Mating with queen
12. Social behavior evolves because
A) under some ecological conditions, the
costs of social life arc less than its benefits
to the individual.
B) Predator pressures always favor social life
C) under some ecological conditions, the costs of social life are less than its benefits to the group
D) Social species are more advanced evolutionary- than solitary ones.
E) Social members have more advanced
sense organs