Genetics and Evolution

Question 1

Characteristics and behaviors that are innate and based on genetics

Answer 1

Nature

Question 2

The idea that characteristics and behaviors are born from lived experience

Answer 2

Nurture

Question 3

Darwin’s theory that nature selects for the best characteristics in a species – survivability –> reproduce more

Answer 3

Natural selection

Question 4

A branch of psychology focusing on how natural selection influences behavior

Answer 4

Evolutionary psychology

Question 5

Twin studies

Answer 5

Purpose: Examine effect of nurture on behavior

Question 6

Adoption studies

Answer 6

Examine effect of nature on behavior

Question 7

Heritability

Answer 7

A measure (a proportion) of how much phenotypic variation in a population can be attributed to how much genetic variation

Question 8

Epigenetics

Answer 8

Study of how the environment can trigger genetic expression through molecular changes

Question 9

Random changes in genes due to gene replication gone wrong

Answer 9

Mutation

Question 10

Probability that twins will share a trait

Answer 10

Concordance rate

Question 11

Monozygotic

Answer 11

Twins with same genetic code

Question 12

Dizygotic

Answer 12

Twins who are genetically just siblings