Chp 2

Question 0

Adaptive behavior

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Is behavior that promotes an organism survival in the natural habitat

Question 1

Natural Selection

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Evolutionary process by which those individuals of a species that are best adapted are the ones that survive and reproduce.

Question 2

Charles darwin

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Theory of evolution by natural selection

Question 3

Evolutionary psychology

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Emphasizes the importance of adaptation reproduction and survival of the fittest in shaping behavior

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Chromosome

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Can be found in the nucleus of each human cell which are threadlike structures made up of the deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA

Question 5

DNA

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Is a complex molecule that has a double helix shape, like a spiral staircase and contains the genetic information

Question 6

Genes

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The units of hereditary information composed of DNA. Genes help cells to reproduce themselves and help manufacture the protein that maintain life

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Protein

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Are the building blocks of cells as well as the regulators that direct the body processes

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Mitosis

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Cellular reproduction in which the cells nucleus duplicates itself with two new cells being formed, each containing the same 23 pairs of chromosomes

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Meiosis

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A specialized form of cell division that occurs to form an egg and sperm aka gametes

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Fertilization

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An egg and a sperm fuse to create a single cell call the zygote

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Genotype

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All of a person genetic material make up

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Phenotype

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Consist of observable characteristics

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Passive genotype environment correlation

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Occur because biological parents who are genetically related to the child provide a rearing environment for the child

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Evocative genotype environment correlations

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Occur because a child’s genetically influenced characteristic elicit certain types of environment

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Active niche-picking

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Occurs when children seek out environments that they find compatible and stimulating

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Genetic imprinting

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Occurs when the expression of a gene has different effects depending on whether the mother or father passed to gene

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Gene x environment

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The interaction of a specific measured variation of the DNA and a specific measured variation of the environment

Question 18

The collaborative gene

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Sure segments of the DNA, constitute genes units of hereditary information that help cells to reproduce and manufacture proteins. Genes act collaboratley not independently