BIOL 112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Relative Growth Rate, Species Problem, Reproductive Isolation
Document Summary
Vehement showing strong feeling, forceful, passionate or intense. Schism a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. Sedition conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. Concatenate link together in a chain or series. Important ppt. notes: virulence is related to grown rate (virulent infections, contagious, transmission rate hypothesis. Predicts that if transmission of std"s from an existing host to a new host is frequent, then natural selection will favor increased virulence. Predicts that if transmission of std"s from an existing host to a new host is infrequent, then natural selection will favor more benign strain decreased virulence. If this hypothesis is correct, then condom use, sexual fidelity, abstinence, and use of clean needles would reduce the incidence and the severity of the disease: non-sexually transmitted pathogens.
