MID-TERM
EXAM – 15 February 2006
Take-home exam – please hand in
your answers on 22 February 2006.
For
a total of 100 points, answers are to be based on lectures, student paper
presentations, Harborne's text book and web sources. You can also supplement with information from primary literature
sources.
Please
word process your answers and hand them in with all source citations aiming at
a minimum of 1 page of single-spaced text per question. Please illustrate answers with
examples and aim to integrate information that we have discussed in class, rather
than target single lectures or presentations for answers.
Question
1 (20 points):
(a) Who is the current president of
the International Society of Chemical Ecology and what is his or her research interest?
(b) Who are the directors of the Max
Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and what are their fields of interest?
(c) Who edits the Journal of
Chemical Ecology
and what is their research emphasis?
(d) Who edits the journal Chemoecology and what is their research
emphasis?
(e) What is the IGERT-funded
graduate program in Aquatic Chemical Signaling at the Georgia Institute of Technology and what is its research focus?
Question
2 (20 points):
Summarize Whittaker and Feeny's (1970) classification
of allelochemical interactions and explain where "synomones" fit
in.
Question
3 (20 points):
What sensory modalities do chemicals target
in interactions among organisms?
Question
4 (20 points):
Can the same chemicals have multiple
functions in interactions among organisms?
Question
5 (20 points):
What is allelopathy in plants and is there
a problem with its experimental determination?