PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Henriette Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Wyeth

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Behaviour/thought/experiences relate to genetics due to mating decisions. N. c. wyeth was a famous american illustrator and artist. Andrew wyeth who is considered one of the most underrated artists of the 19th century, Henriette wyeth hurd who would become known for her portrait and still life painting skills, and ann wyeth mccoy the watercolourist. We are comprised of 23 chromosomes, if all 23 chromosomes were copied, we would make a clone. We get half our chromosomes from our mother and half from our father. In the dna there is a locus that can be called a gene. Gene may code some aspect of the child- a characteristic. Gene combinations are called alleles which are traits. A single gene trait can be something like anxiety. A more complicated trait would be a polygenic trait which makes up your iq score. There are ~25,000 genes to each person but each person shares about 99. 5% of their internal code with others.