Question | Answer |
Positive Interdependence | The belief by each individual that there is value in working with other members and that both individual learning and work products will be better as a result of collaboration |
Promotive Interaction | Supportive climate, give honest feedback, committed to each other as well as mutual goals, help each other overcome problems, embody respect, caring, and encouragement between individuals so all are motivated |
Individual Accountability | Each individual accountable for their learning and performance of team role |
Group Skills | Provide effective leadership, decision-making, trust-building, communication, and conflict management |
Group Processing | Analyzing how well your team is functioning and how well social skills are being employed, with goal of improving over time |
Biological Evolution | Change in the heritable characteristics of a population of organisms over the course of generations |
Small scale evolution (microevolution) | Change in gene frequency in a population from one generation to the next |
Large scale evolution (macroevolution) | The descent of different species from a common ancestor over many generations |
Two things that evolution explains | Unity (common ancestry) and diversity (modifications) |
Theory | A well-substained explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses |
Natural Selection | Individuals in a population who are better adapted for their way of life in the current environment survive to leave more offspring with their traits- favorable traits will increase in proportion over time |
VISTA | Useful way to remember elements of natural selection; variance, inheritance, selection, time, adaptation |
Ultimate source of genetic variation | Mutation |
Phylogeny | Evolutionary history; lines of evolutionary decent from a common ancestor |
Clade | A group of organisms that include a common ancestor and all the descendants of that ancestor |
Monophyletic | Another word for clade |
Homologous | Two species use a shared character because it was inherited from a common ancestor |
Analogous | Two species have a similar character that is not due to common ancestry |
Convergent Evolution | The process of similar selection pressure resulting in a similar independently evolved trait |
Adaptation | Only found in natural selection; populations evolve in such a way to become better suited to their environment as an advantageous trait becomes more frequent |