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Individuals that are best adapted are the ones to survive and reproduce.
Proposed by Charles Darwin |
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| A behavior that promotes an organism's survival in their natural habitat |
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| emphasizes the importance of adaptation, reproduction, and "survival of the fittest" in shaping behavior |
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| Studies links between heredity and behavior, but NOT study genes directly |
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| Genes that are shared among blood relations, including twins, siblings, cousins, and members of the same race/ethnicity |
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| parents who are genetically related to the child provide a rearing environment for the child. For example, if parents enjoy reading, and read to their kids, their children may develop an interest in reading |
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| This occurs because a child's characteristics elicit certain typ[es of environments |
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| (Niche Picking) Children seek out environments that they find stimulating and compatible. |
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| Development is a bidirectional interchange between heredity and environment |
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| Threadlike structure that comes in 23 pairs, one of each coming from each parent. Contains DNA |
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| Double helix shaped molecule with genetic information |
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| The cell's nucleus duplicates itself and the cell divides into two separate, but duplicate, cells |
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| Gametes (egg or sperm cell) duplicates, then divides TWICE,, creating 4 cells, each having half of the genetic material of the parent cell |
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| Egg and sperm fuse to create a single cell, called a zygote |
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| A person's genetic heritage: the actual genetic material |
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| The way an individual's genotype is observed |
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