CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sandra Scarr, Human Genome Project, Twin
7 Dec 2016
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Taking substances before birth, males or females: things to think about. The readings for this week both address this question in different ways. Scarr and mccartney focus on genetics: key concepts. The complete set of genetics information for humans. Check out the human genome project http://www. genome. gov/10001772#al-1: key concepts. Disease, genetic element of the disease, diabetes, etc. It is an increased likelihood of developing a particular disease based on a person"s. People commonly think about it as how we expressed our genetic inheritance but . That"s really phenotype. (genetic inheritance, if you have brown eyes, you could: key concepts genetic makeup have a blue eyes gene because your mother has blue eyes. ) The outward physical manifestation of our genotype which is the internally coded inheritable information. Phenotype is what we can see, genotype is everything: genetics. Think of it in terms of a recipe. Ingredients + environment = product (cid:498)differences(cid:499) between products can be attributed to ingredients or environment: genetics.
