Exam 4: Genes, Evolution, and Behaviour

The slow changes in a species that occur over time are influenced in a large part by whether or not genetically based traits give an organism an advantage. What is being described?

What is the knockout procedure and how is it used by psychologists to study behaviour?

If a chromosome is a long book, then a gene would best be viewed as ____________.

In Buss' study of mate preferences, men and women rated these factors as one of the three most important characteristics EXCEPT _______.

Which of the following is NOT an aspect of a genetic counsellor's role? To help _______________.

Which of the following procedures have been used to produce human growth hormone?

What mating system described by Trivers fits with your experience of human society?

Dizygotic twins share ______________ of their genetic endowment with their parents.

Your grandfather has blue eyes. What is the chance that you have the same gene responsible for this characteristic yourself?

Twins, whether identical or fraternal, tend to be treated very similarly by others.

Imagine that your mother has a gene that is associated with a particular physical characteristic such as eye colour. The probability that you too have this gene is _______.

A situation in which one individual helps another and in doing so also gains some advantage for themselves is known as

Every year, the dubious posthumous honour of the Darwin Award is bestowed on people who "improve the human gene pool by accidentally killing themselves in really stupid ways." In 2002, for example, a man used a chainsaw to open a grenade because he wanted to make firecrackers; instead, the grenade exploded. To which of Darwin's principles are the Darwin Awards in homage?

Which of the following beliefs advocates that the genes of some individuals are better than the genes of other individuals?

Men are more likely than women to have sex with several different people because historically this made it possible for them to father more children. This belief is postulated by the ___________.

Kin selection theory has difficulties explaining the following behaviour

The change over time in the frequency with which particular genes occur within an interbreeding population is referred to as

In addition to the existing factors known to influence intelligence, which of the following is an additional factor, as mentioned by your text, which may influence intelligence?

The expression "survival of the fittest" was coined by

Individual 1 expresses a new trait because of 1 copy of the gene inherited. Individual 2 expresses another new trait because of 2 copies of the gene inherited. How can we describe those genes in individuals 1 and 2?