PSY333H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sickle-Cell Disease, Chromosome, Epigenetics
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Single gene disorders; gene mutations: cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease. Chromosomes keep dna wrapped around proteins call histones. Amino acids: building blocks of life attached to one another to form proteins. Amino acids proteins living cells tissue organs. Rna are smaller and is missing one side of the ladder: ribosomes are protein building, and reads rna code 3 amino acids at a time. What might impact height (especially when they are supposed to be the same height?: nutrition- being fed differently (especially those separated at birth, this may even occur at the same household. Traits acquired in response to the current environment will be experienced over a lifetime and passed onto offspring. Genes, stress, and behavior is your child an orchid or a dandelion? http://brainblogger. com/2015/03/27/genes-stress-and-behavior-is-your-child-an-orchid-or-a- dandelion/ Kids that are hypersensitive to their environment. A group of kids entering school- one is moping and in a corner, while the other is happy and excited.
