PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Natural Selection, Organic Chemistry, Population Genetics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Don Dedrick

Document Summary

Inherit other genes (body-body: ie: passed on to children from the mother (antibiotics) Happens of the course of a life time. Cats genomes are very simple: hair color is restrictive. Is sensitive to the temperature it is exposed to. Mark shaved his cat, and now the cat is black with a white m. Benefit for a particular organism at a certain time. Can be a bi-product of something that had a purpose (arches of the churches) Everything that is an adaptive is now an adaptation??? (check recording) Lost of things we have now or adaptations of our ancestors. Stretch of time, problem on longer exists but assets is still there. Adaptation flexibility: weather/climate, without the long process of gene transfer/changes to prepare for the change. Church arch (they have it due to the way it was originally designed: been there so long, you cannot go back and start changing it.