Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Lewis Goldberg, Daniel Tammet, Parental Investment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Separated at birth and raised in different families. Hippocrates suggested that semen contains some sort of design for the formation of offspring: partially correct. Gregor mendel a monk performing research with garden peas in the 1860s lead to the beginning of modern genetic theory. One of the reasons that genotypes differ from phenotypes is that genes are dominant and recessive. If you receive a dominant gene from your mother or father then the particular characteristics associated with that gene will be present. For recessive gene, the characteristic for it will not show up unless both genes from your mother and father are recessive. Blue eyed gene = b: bb bb bb bb, bb bb bb bb bb. We get half of our genetic material from each parent. Therefore, probability of sharing any particular gene with one of your parents is. One"s genotype i present from conception and never changes. Observable characteristic produced by the genetic makeup.