Word Bank for Exam III

Adaptation Adaptionist Program Adaptive landscape Additive genetic variation Asexual reproduction Comparative method Contrivance Contingency Continuous variation Directional selection Discrete variation Disruptive selection

Evolutionary arms race Genetic constraint Genetic load Genotype x environment interaction Heritability (narrow and broad-sense) Linkage disequilibrium Linkage equilibrium Lottery model Mean Muller’s ratchet Natural Theology Observation studies

Physiological constraint Phenotypic variation Polygenic Pre-adaptation Quantitative trait Red Queen Hypothesis Response to selection Selection differential Sexual reproduction Stabilizing selection Tangled bank Trade-off Variance