PSYC-2005EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine
26 Sep 2016
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Epigenists: the father shaped the child"s development from the outside into the womb. Ovists: the baby was pre-formed in the egg where the father would spark the development of the baby. Homunculus": the baby is pre-formed in the head of the sperm and the woman was only a vessel to grow the baby. Because there is over 8 million possible combintions of dna structures; no two people are likely to be the same, even with siblings. There are four types of nucleotide dna basis: adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, codon: words of three sets of dna basis, one set from the mother and one set from the father. Humans have 46 chromosomes, not randomized but in pairs of 23: for any trait, there will always be two genes, alleles: different form of the same gene, homozygous: possession of the same gene (md, Dm: heterozygous: possession of different genes (md, All cells maintain the same genetic makeup from birth to death.
