PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sensation Seeking, Selective Breeding, Cloning

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Elizabeth Page- Gould

Document Summary

Dna: ordering of bases (a, t, c, g) = genetic code, one gene = segment of dna = 100 to several million base pairs. Brown cow and white cow mate offspring half brown and half white. Blood type: a and b alleles = dominant, o = recessive. Ab = blood ab, ao = blood type a, bo = blood type b, oo = blood type o: incomplete dominance: combination expressed. Skin colour: polygenic, many pairs of alleles create expression, most human traits, especially personality traits are polygenic, many genes control a trait such as skin colour. In this study they looked genetics differences and similarities in disinhibition (doing wild things partying, sexual risk taking, other risk taking, etc. ) They looked at people who could be argued to be similar or different for their genotype on disinhibition and separated them according to if they had a religious upbringing or not.