PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gregor Mendel, Gene Expression, Behavioural Genetics
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Dna carries genetic information (for all living things ) Dna controls growth and development ; determines what someone will end up looking like, determines how tall they will be; sets the blueprint for various aspects of development. Controls everything that they person will not be learning. One gene = 100 to several million pairs of bases/ rungs of the ladder ; a segment of the dna. Illustration/depiction of dna; order of bases on dna = genome, which corresponds to genotype. Made up of alleles: alleles gene variant. What is seen; what comes out in the individual i. e. in eye colour blue eyes would be a phenotype. =genotype + environment -- phenotype consists of the independent effects of the genotype and the environment. +gene-environment interaction and also the interaction between the genotype and the environment. +gene-environment correlation (with formulas, know what they mean, but will not have to calculate anything)
