CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Amygdala, Visual Cortex, Neural Darwinism
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How can genetics and brain development help us understand children and youth: 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. 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 . The outward physical manifestation of our genotype which is the _______internally coded, inheritable information_____________: genetics. Think of it in terms of a recipe. _____product__________________________ (cid:498)differences(cid:499) between products can be attributed to ingredients or environment: genetics. Direct production of amino acids necessary for forming new cells. Guides cells to develop different parts of body: genetics. Heritability is ___amount of variability in a trait that"s attributed to hereditary.