PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Bronchus, Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, Orgasm
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Synesthesia: cross sensory experience (like a visual image having a taste). Synesthete a person who experiences synesthesia. is hereditary. Genetics: a term usually used to describe characteristics such as height, hair color etc are passed along through inheritance. Biology and environment mutually influence each other. Human genome project: an international research effort. Mapping of the entire structure of the human genetic material. The genome is the master blueprint that provides detailed instructions to multiple options within our body from how to grow a gall baldder to where the nose is placed. And our environment determines which option is taken. Chromosomes: structures within the cel boy that are made up of genes. Gene: the unit of hereditary that determines a particular characteristic in an organism. Dominant gene: a gene that is expressed in the offspring whenever it is present. Recessive gene: a gene that is expressed only when it sis matched with a similar gene from the other parent.
