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Psych 3260 Prelim 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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