CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sandra Scarr, Human Genome Project, Twin
19 Oct 2017
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Doctors recommend taking folic acid before conception so its present in your system to help decrease euro defects such as spina bifida. The readings for this week both address this question in different ways. Key concepts: genetic predisposition, it is an increased likelihood of developing a particular disease based on a person"s genetic makeup, people commonly think about it as how we expressed our genetic inheritance but . Key concepts: that"s really phenotype, the outward physical manifestation of our genotype (all the genetic material combined) which is the internally coded, inheritable information, it can also do with your environment and when and how you were exposed. Genetics: what is genetics, think of it in terms of a recipe, ingredients + environment = product, differences between products can be attributed to ingredients or environment. Genotype is inherited genes and expressed through phenotype. Phenotype doesn"t have everything that you hold genetic genome.
