'Genetic Fitness' Is Measured with Reference to _____ and _____

question 27

Multiple Choice

'Genetic fitness' is measured with reference to _____ and _____.

• A) homeostasis and development
• B) increased fertility and increased mortality
• C) physiology and environment
• D) decreased mortality and increased fertility
• E) increased strength and cunning (smartness)

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Definitions:

Neokurtic

Refers to a distribution in statistics that is characterized by a relatively peaked (less flat) curve representing frequency of data points.

Leptokurtic

A distribution of values that is peaked or high relative to the normal curve. Values in such a distribution have a narrower range.

Monokurtic

Describing a distribution that has kurtosis similar to that of a normal distribution, indicating the data has moderate outliers or none, and the peak of the distribution is neither flat nor too sharp.

Standard Error

For a sampling distribution (the distribution of scores for a sample), the standard deviation is called the standard error.