Psychology 2040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Thymine, Adenine, Cytosine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2040A/B
• Professor: J.Bruce Morton

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Gregor mendel: observed the characteristics of successive generations of peas, theorized that hereditary characteristics are determined by pairs of particles called factor (later made genes, also proposed that the info provided by the two members of a pair of genes is not always identical, different forms of a gene are alleles, outlined the basic principle by which genes are transferred from one generation to another, concluded that we receive one member of every pair of genes from the mother and one from the father, chromosomes, long, threadlike structures in the nucleus of nearly every cell in the body, 46 in the human body.