Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tay–Sachs Disease, Absolute Difference, Muscle Atrophy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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*complete assignment quizzes on connect by oct 23)* Everything that is similar in these cases are because of geneics. Ask one quesion from chapter 3 ask dr mike" with your group, and give an answer to someone else"s quesion (before october 23) Process of aging causes disconnecion of synapses synapses iring will help someone forget. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes (22 autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes. Rna codes for proteins (sequences of amino acids) There are no genes for paricular atributes, but there are genes that code of rna that code for a certain protein! Myleinated neurons (this is coded for in genes) Environmental exposure at speciic interval is criical. Ie. white-crowed sparrow must hear adult song between 7th and 60th day (otherwise it will never sing) Phenotype: outward expression of genotype (characterisics, behaviours, etc) On the genes, you can have diferent alleles (heterozygous) or the same (homozygous) alleles.