Responses to Stimuli: The Basis of Behavior

 

Walter B. Lener, Rosalie R. Talbert, and Kathryn Stanley Podwall

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1984, Volume 5

Abstract

This exercise is designed to provide students with an opportunity to observe simple taxic responses in an aquatic test organism brine shrimp and a terrestrial test organism milkweed bug.

Keywords:  milkweed bug, stimulus, behavior, chemotaxis, brine shrimp, thermotaxis, phototaxis, geotaxis, rheotaxis, thigmotaxis

Clemson University (1983)