1 | Parental Care | | _____ | growth that continues throughout the lifetime |
2 | Life History Traits | | _____ | behaviors by a parent to enhance the fitness of offspring; includes incubation, feeding, and defense |
3 | Maternal Care | | _____ | any investment by a parent in offspring that enhances the offspring's fitness at the cost of the parent's ability to invest in other offspring |
4 | Paternal Care | | _____ | a pattern in which individuals stop growing at some point in their life |
5 | Biparental Care | | _____ | death of some siblings as a result of reduced parental care for the purpose of enhancing the fitness of surviving siblings |
6 | Determinate Growth | | _____ | a life history strategy in which there are multiple reproductive events throughout the lifetime |
7 | Indeterminate Growth | | _____ | both parents provide care for offspring |
8 | Iteroparity | | _____ | in insects, a class of hormones produced by specialized endocrine glands; these hormones influence molting, are associated with reproductive maturation, and are known to vary with levels of parental care provided to offspring |
9 | Semelparity | | _____ | parents should maximize their lifetime reproductive fitness, while offspring should maximize the energy and protection they currently receive from their parents to survive to reproductive age |
10 | Prolactin | | _____ | process of a male grasping and holding a female during copulation |
11 | Brood Patch | | _____ | parental care provided by a female to her offspring |
12 | Juvenile Hormones | | _____ | a behavior in which a female (brood parasite) lays an egg in the nest of another female |
13 | Amplexus | | _____ | a life history strategy in which reproduction occurs once in a lifetime |
14 | Parent-offspring Conflict Theory | | _____ | a featherless area on the belly of birds that is well vascularized for heat transfer to eggs during incubation |
15 | Parental Investment | | _____ | a hormone that influences parental care in vertebrates |
16 | Brood Reduction | | _____ | the hatching of offspring in a clutch of eggs on different days |
17 | Hatching Asynchrony | | _____ | traits involved with growth, reproduction, and survivorship |
18 | Brood Parasitism | | _____ | parental care that a male provides to offspring |