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Total cards: 24•Content version: v3•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Front (Question)

What is Eusociality?

Back (Answer)

highest level of animal sociality

Front (Question)

Benefits of Eusociality?

Back (Answer)

selfish herd, competitive, reduce dispersal risk

Front (Question)

Costs of Eusociality?

Back (Answer)

increased competition, transmission of disease, easy detection of predators

Front (Question)

Ants communicate through ___.

Back (Answer)

pheromones

Front (Question)

What is Trophallaxis?

Back (Answer)

sharing of liquid food

Front (Question)

What is nestmate transport?

Back (Answer)

one ant carries another ant

Front (Question)

What is Biological Altruism?

Back (Answer)

individuals benefit others at the cost of themselves

Front (Question)

Why might sterile workers give up own reproductive ability to help mother (altruism)?

Back (Answer)

high relatedness and ecological factors

Front (Question)

What is kin selection?

Back (Answer)

strategy that favors the reproductive success of an individual’s relatives at the cost of their own survival

#10

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What is Direct Fitness?

Back (Answer)

production of offspring

#11

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What is Indirect Fitness?

Back (Answer)

aiding the production of relatives’ offspring

#12

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What is Haplodiploidy?

Back (Answer)

males develop from unfertilized eggs and females develop from fertilized eggs

#13

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What’s the Life Cycle of an ant colony?

Back (Answer)

founding stage, growth stage, reproductive stage

#14

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What is Independent Founding Stage (ICF)?

Back (Answer)

queens found new colonies alone

#15

Front (Question)

Advantages to ICF?

Back (Answer)

long range dispersal, reduced competition with ants

#16

Front (Question)

Disadvantages to ICF?

Back (Answer)

slow colony growth, later reproduction, increased competition between colonies

#17

Front (Question)

What is Dependent Colony Foundation (DCF)?

Back (Answer)

queens found new colonies with help from workers of natal colony

#18

Front (Question)

Advantages to DCF?

Back (Answer)

faster colony growth, earlier colony reproduction, competitive advantages over ICF colonies

#19

Front (Question)

Disadvantages to DCF?

Back (Answer)

limited dispersal, fate on colony dependent on environment, increased local competition

#20

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What is Nuptial Flight?

Back (Answer)

gynes and males fly to mate with each other

#21

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What is a Superorganism?

Back (Answer)

the idea that an ant colony is like a single organism

#22

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What’s a Queen?

Back (Answer)

reproductive unit of colony

#23

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What’s a Worker (Minor Worker)?

Back (Answer)

sterile female that does all tasks except for reproduction

#24

Front (Question)

What’s a Soldier (Major Worker)?

Back (Answer)

sterile female, protection from predators and carry large objects