Differential reproduction and survivorship among individuals in a population
What is natural selection?
100
Found in the common ancestor of 2+ species
What are plesiomorphic traits?
100
Nested hierarchy that classifies organisms into species/subspecies
What is Phylogenetic classification system?
100
Branch of applied mathematics that uses probability theory to produce the best conclusions from the available data
What is statistics?
100
Argenine vasopressin receptor
What is AVPRIA receptor?
200
An evolutionary process that results in a population of individuals with traits best suited to the current environment/a trait that enhances fitness
What is adaptation?
200
A form of learning in which an associate is formed with one stimulus (event/object in the environment) and another stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
200
Groups of organisms from the same common ancestor
What are clades?
200
Scientific name for fruit flies
What is D.melanogaster
200
Fear of physical contact/open spaces
What is thigmotaxis?
300
Different groups are subjected to differential selection on the trait in question. Mate individuals with specific trait to see if passed to offspring
What is Selection Experiment?
300
A field of comparative psychology that studies behaviour independent of animal's mental states or conciousness
What is Behaviourism?
300
similar ancestral traits.
What are homologies?
300
Individual genes that are responsible for the majority of phenotypic variation
What are major genes?
300
Measurement of the activity of many genes by quantifying gene products (proteins etc)
What is a microarray analysis?
400
Selection that favours particular groups of individuals over other groups of the same species
What is Group Selection?
400
Seeks to understand human thinking and behaviour. Assumes that natural selection has shaped brain architecture and thought processes in an adaptive manner
What is evolutionary psychology?
400
Species distantly related the focal group
What is an out group?
400
Stretches of DNA that contain/are linked to genes influencing the trait/behaviour of interest
What is Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL)?
400
Range of behaviours expressed by a single genotype in different environments
What is reaction norm?
500
Focuses on understanding the immediate causes of behaviour
What is Proximate?
500
Focuses on the ecology and evolution of behaviour in terms of fitness consequences
What is Behavioural ecology?
500
Statistical technique used to determine which regions of the genome have genes that influence a trait of interest