1 | Natural Selection | | _____ | statistical technique used to measure heritability; examines similarity of traits between parents and their offspring |
2 | Heritable | | _____ | a trait that enhances fitness |
3 | Evolution | | _____ | evolutionary process that optimizes animal traits to fit their current environments |
4 | Parent-offspring Regression | | _____ | selection that favors one group over another group within the same species |
5 | Selection Experiment | | _____ | the trait value that has the highest fitness in a population in a specific environment |
6 | Adaptation (trait) | | _____ | selection that favors individuals with either one of two extreme phenotypes |
7 | Adaptation (process) | | _____ | an experiment in which different groups of individuals are exposed to differential selection on a trait |
8 | Directional Selection | | _____ | natural selection that involves both group and individual selection |
9 | Disruptive Selection | | _____ | individual fitness + fitness due to kin selection |
10 | Stabilizing Selection | | _____ | pronounced morphological differences between the sexes |
11 | Optimal Trait Value | | _____ | a trait that is passed on from parent to offspring |
12 | Cost-benefit Approach | | _____ | natural selection that acts on heritable traits that affect reproduction |
13 | Individual Selection | | _____ | natural selection acting on individuals |
14 | Group Selection | | _____ | differential reproduction and survivorship among individuals in a population that results in adaptive evolution |
15 | Kin Selection | | _____ | selection that favors individuals with intermediate phenotypes |
16 | Inclusive Fitness | | _____ | a form of natural selection used to explain altruism; based on the idea that individuals can increase their own fitness by helping close relatives that have a high percent of shared genes |
17 | Multilevel Selection | | _____ | changes in allele frequency in a population over time |
18 | Sexual Selection | | _____ | method used to study behavior adaptations by examining fitness costs and benefits of various traits |
19 | Sexual Dimorphism | | _____ | selection that favors individuals with one extreme phenotype |