The NOVA episode "Dogs Decoded" helps students understand genetics. 10 short answer questions check understanding.
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PBS NOVA: "Dogs Decoded"
Watch the video and answer the questions below.
Question 1
1.
How is the way a dog looks at human faces similar to the way humans look at faces?
Question 2
2.
What evidence suggests humans can understand barking? (And how did researchers test this hypothesis?)
Question 3
3.
Why is the hormone oxytocin important?
Question 4
4.
What can dogs do much better than a chimpanzee?
Question 5
5.
Betsy is a dog with what unusual ability?
Question 6
6.
The video shows a project where humans raised wolf cubs like they were puppies. What major differences were shown between the wolf cubs and domesticated puppies?
Question 7
7.
Describe the process being used in Russia to domesticate foxes.
Question 8
8.
How did researchers in the fox project determine that nature (genetics) was more important than nurture (how the foxes were raised)?
Question 9
9.
When we select against aggression (either in foxes or dogs), what other characteristics seem to become more pronounced?
Question 10
10.
How is the boxer genome being used to help humans?