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    No Brain Too Small BIOLOGY

    AS91603
    Demonstrate understanding of the responses of plants and animals to their external
    environment
    Level 3 5 Credits External

    This achievement standard involves demonstrating understanding of the responses of plants and animals
    to their external environment.
    Achievement Criteria
    Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence
    Demonstrate understanding of
    the responses of plants and
    animals to their external
    environment.
    Demonstrate in-depth
    understanding of the responses
    of plants and animals to their
    external environment.
    Demonstrate comprehensive
    understanding of the responses
    of plants and animals to their
    external environment.

    Describing plant and animal responses to their external environment.
    the process(es) within each response
    how the responses occur
    the adaptive advantage provided for the organism in relation to its ecological niche.
    why the responses provide an adaptive advantage for the organism in relation to its ecological
    niche.
    Responses are selected from those relating to:
    o orientation in space
    tropisms,
    nastic responses,
    taxes,
    kineses,
    homing,
    migration
    o orientation in time
    annual,
    daily,
    lunar,
    tidal rhythms
    o interspecific relationships
    competition for resources,
    mutualism,
    exploitation including herbivory, predation, and parasitism
    o intraspecific relationships
    competition for resources,
    territoriality,
    hierarchical behaviour,
    cooperative interactions,
    reproductive behaviours
    External environment will include both biotic and abiotic factors.

    No Brain Too Small BIOLOGY

    Learning Outcomes:
    At the end of this topic I can
    Describe the environment in terms of biotic and
    abiotic factors.
    Distinguish between a tropism and a nastic
    response.
    Explain the adaptive value of tropisms and nastic
    responses.
    Explain the role of plant hormones in controlling
    plant responses to environmental factors.
    Interpret historical experiments relating to
    phototropism.
    Describe the effect of specific plant hormones on
    plant growth and development.
    Distinguish between learned and innate behaviour.
    Distinguish between a taxis and a kinesis.
    Describe the adaptive value of taxes and kineses.
    Distinguish between migration and homing.
    Identify the environmental cues involved in
    triggering migration and homing.
    Describe how animals navigate during migration and
    homing.
    Explain the adaptive value of migratory behaviour
    and homing.
    Describe how the astronomical cycle creates
    environmental cues.
    Describe the function of a biological clock.
    Use examples to distinguish between the differing
    biological rhythms.
    Explain the two parts of the mechanism underlying
    biological rhythms.
    o The endogenous part.
    o The exogenous part.
    Interpret activity diagrams of organisms, using the
    following terms: free running period, phase shift,
    entrainment, zeitgeber.
    Explain the adaptive value of biological timing.
    Define photoperiodism.
    Distinguish between short and long day plants.
    Explain the role of phytochrome in photoperiodism.
    Explain the adaptive value of vernalisation,
    dormancy and abscission.
    Explain the importance of ritual in preventing
    fighting.
    Distinguish between territory and home range.
    Discuss the adaptive value of territoriality.
    Define hierarchy.
    Describe how rank is communicated.
    Describe the significance of social dominance.
    Use field data to determine a linear hierarchy.
    Discuss mechanisms by which plants and animals
    reduce intraspecific competition.
    Define co-operative behaviour.
    Describe survival value of group co-operative
    behaviour.
    Describe the role of courtship behaviours in
    breeding.
    Explain the adaptive advantage of the pair bond.
    Explain the variability in the degree of parental care
    in different species.
    Explain how having a specific niche reduces
    interspecific competition.
    Using a predation/prey graph describe the
    relationship between predator and prey.
    Describe techniques of predation.
    Describe strategies used by prey to avoid predators.
    Describe plant physical and chemical defences
    against herbivores.
    Define the terms mutualism, commensalism,
    exploitation including herbivory, predation and
    parasitism using examples to illustrate definition.

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