Psychology 1100E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1100E
• Professor: Dr. Chung

Document Summary

The average person has around 10 trillion cells. Most of them contain a nucleus (located in the chromosome), which contains all of the instructions on how to build a person" essentially. In a typical human, there are 46 chromosomes, which are paired up into 23 pairs . Each chromosome is made up of hundreds of thousands of genes. Genes are made up of hundreds or thousands of nucleotide pairs. Each of those pairs specifies the production of specific types of proteins or enzymes. The chromosome is the larger scale instruction manual , whereas each of those genes are a line of instruction in the manual. The rungs of the ladder of the dna are pairs of. Genotype refers to the total genetic endowment inherited by the individual - the genes you actually have. Phenotype refers to observable and measurable characteristics and traits of any particular individual - the characteristics that you manifest and express.