PSY 1102 Lecture : Chapter 4- Nature, Nurtue and Human Diversity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Chapter four: nature, nurture, and human diversity: introduction. Nurture: everything else other than genes, the culture you were bought up in, the country and family you were brought up in, the school you went to. Nurture you can also say environment or experience. There is an interaction between nature and nurture. Our body is made up of millions of cells, in every cell, except the egg and sperm, we have 46 chromosomes, 23 pairs. We have thousands of genes, which are considered to be the basic unit of heredity. Genes carry the instruction that give an organism it"s traits or characteristics. They always come in pairs, a with t and g with c. The sequence sill determine what a gene will do and what it will not do. Changing just one letter in a sequence changes what the gene does. Chromosomes: books: chromosomes are books, genes are the words in a book, nucleotides are letters in a book.