CC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Twin, Allele
Document Summary
Behavioural genetics: the field of study concerned with understanding the influence of genetics on the expression of characteristics and behaviours within a population. Evolutionary psychology: the field of study concerned with understanding how natural selection shapes and influenced mental processes and behaviours. A small segment of dna that constitutes the small segments known as genes, which constitute the blueprints of life. Allele biological instructions for a certain characteristics or part of the body. A gene that exists in more than one form. An alternative form of a gene that exists in more than one form. A trait characteristic that is under the influence of multiple genes. Monozygotic twins: single fertilized egg, identical twins, genetically identical. Dizygotic twins: two eggs dependently fertilized by different sperm and vary genetically from one another, fraternal twins, no meow or less genetically similar than siblings born apart from one another.
