PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Human Genome Project, Behavioural Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology
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Chapter 3. 1 genetic and evolutionary perspectives on behavoiur. Introduction: dr. haselton, an evolutionary psychologist, discovered that the clothes people choose are related to sexual motivation in some subtle ways. The basic units of heredity; genes are responsible fro guiding the process of creating the proteins that make up out physical structures and regulate development and physiological processes throughout the lifespan. A molecule formed in a double-helix shape that contains 4 nucleotides: adenine: dna, genotype. The physical trait or behavioural characteristics that show genetic variation: develops because of differences in the nucleotide sequencing of a, c, g, t as, phenotype well as through interactions with the environment, chromosomes individual inherits. Structures in the cellular nucleus that are lined with all of the genes an: the most common chromosomal abnormality is down syndrome, a trisomy on the 21 st chromosome. If 2 corresponding genes at a given location on a pair of chromosomes are the same, they are referred to as homozygous.
