Week 3 Flashcards
What is an adoption study?
A behavior genetic research method that involves comparison of adopted children to their adoptive and biological parents.
What is behavioural genetics?
The empirical science of how genes and environments combine to generate behavior.
What are twin studies?
A behavior genetic research method that involves comparison of the similarity of identical (monozygotic; MZ) and fraternal (dizygotic; DZ) twins.
What are adaptations?
Evolved solutions to problems that historically contributed to reproductive success.
What is evolution?
Change over time. Is the definition changing?
What is gene selection theory?
The modern theory of evolution by selection by which differential gene replication is the defining process of evolutionary change.
Epigenetics
The study of heritable changes in Gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence.
