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Psych 3260 Prelim 1
Term | Definition |
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Bateman | Bateman demonstrated the relationship between number of mates and the reproductive success of male and female Drosophila melanogaster, concluding that females are limited by energy availability. |
Darwin | #Darwin |
Dawkins | Selfish gene theory |
DeVries | |
Dobzhansky | Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution |
Hamilton | Hamilton's rule... will determine whether or not to damper one's own reproductive fitness based on the relatedness of the recipient |
Jenkin | Things blend? |
Johannsen | |
Kelvin | |
Lamark | |
Lorenz | |
Lyell | – Uniformitarian Geology – The earth changes slowly and gradually |
Malthus | |
Mendel | |
Paley | |
Skinner | |
Tinbergen | |
Trivers | |
Wallace | |
Wilson | |
Williams | |
Behaviorism | The school of psychology largely founded by Watson that suggests that observable behavior should be the subject matter of psychology. |
Blending | |
Coefficient of relatedness | The r value between two individuals is the probability that an allele chosen at random from one individual will also be present in another individual. |
differential investment theory | |
direct competition | |
direct fitness | |
directional selection | |
disruptive selection | |
fixed action pattern | An innate or instinctive pattern of behavior that is highly stereotyped and stimulated by some simple stimulus. |
genetic drift | A change in the frequency of alleles in a population due to chance alone (as opposed to selection) |
genotype conception | |
indirect fitness | |
indirect competition | |
industrial melanism | |
inter-sexual selection | |
intra-sexual selection | |
missing link | |
modern synthesis | |
mutation | |
natural selection | |
natural theology | |
primary sexual characters | |
principle of heredity | |
principle of natural selection | |
principle of segregation | |
principle of variation | |
secondary sexual characters | |
sex-role reversal | |
sexual dimorphism | |
sexual selection | |
single allele substitution model | |
sociobiology | |
stabilizing selection | |
transmission conception | |
Tinbergen's four questions | |
adenine | |
allele | |
amino acid | |
cytosine | |
deoxyribose sugar backbone | |
diploid | |
DNA backbone | |
elongation | |
endoplasmic reticulum | |
gamete | |
genome | |
genotype | |
golgi apparatus | |
guanine | |
homologous | |
initiation | |
locus | |
messenger | |
monomer | |
nucleic acid | |
nucleotide | |
phenotype | |
polymer | |
promoter | |
protein | |
proteome | |
ribose sugar backbone | |
RNA polymerase | |
RNA synthesis | |
start codon | |
termination RNA | |
terminator | |
thymine | |
transcription | |
transcriptome | |
transfer RNA | |
translation | |
uracil |