PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Estrous Cycle, Visual Cortex, Parietal Lobe

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Notes chapter 3, inextricably entwined with lecture notes. The brain reflects genetic inheritance, experience, and together these variables determine the size, function, and structure of the brain. It"s doesn"t just depend on the size/body mass ratio, but the complexity and organization of its neural circuits (how it"s put together). Within nearly every cell is the entire genome making up the entire organism (you). The genome is the master blueprint of where the nose goes, how much the ears droop etc. Whether a cell becomes a part of the nose, or the droopy ears, all depends on what genes are turned on or off in the cell. Chromosomes are structures of genes, which are again components of dna. Dna consists of two strands of molecules, intertwining, providing codes for instructions of the building of proteins, which are the basic chemicals that make up the structure of the cells and their activities.