Male fruit flies perform a complex mating dance that includes following the female, vibrating a wing to produce a species-specific song, and picking up chemosensory cues by tapping with the legs and licking with the tongue. What physiological features are likely important for causing this behavior? (Check all that apply)

Question

_____  adaptive value of successful mating
_____  brain circuits
_____  hormones
_____  natural selection
_____  performance of phylogenetically-related species
_____  sensory neurons on the legs and tongue
_____  sperm competition
_____  threats of predation during the performance
_____  visual system
_____  wings and wing muscles


Clarify question:
What is the key concept addressed by the question?

What type of thinking is required?

Gather Content:
What do you already know about physiological and evolutionary factors underlying a behavior? What other information is related to the question? 


Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?


Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?

Answer 1

_____  adaptive value of successful mating
__X__  brain circuits
__X__  hormones
_____  natural selection
_____  performance of phylogenetically-related species
__X__  sensory neurons on the legs and tongue
_____  sperm competition
_____  threats of predation during the performance
__X__  visual system
__X__  wings and wing muscles


Clarify question:
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
The question asks about the underlying factors effecting various behaviors in fruit flies.

What type of thinking is required?
This is an analyze question. You have to analyze the various factors that might play a role in the mating dance of male fruit flies. Physiological factors are going to allow the fly to perform the dance. Evolutionary factors help to determine the adaptive value of the dance. This is a check all that apply question, all of the choices that are directly involved in performing the behaviors are correct choices.


Gather Content:
What do you already know about physiological and evolutionary factors underlying a behavior? What other information is related to the question? 
In this question you need to select all of the physiological factors from the choices given. The physiological factors are parts of the fly the allow it to perform the dance. Evolutionary forces certainly play a role in selecting for certain behaviors, but they are not physiological factors that allow for the performance of the specific behavior.


Choose Answer:
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
Brain circuits, hormones, sensory neurons, visual system, and wings are all involved in the physiological factors that are involved in the male mating dance.


Reflection on Process:
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
Did you get the question right? You had to look over all the choices and pick out all that are physiological factors that influence behavior.