Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Autosome, Genetic Drift, Retina

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

Document Summary

Under welcome tab, there is information about exams. Professor buss reports that for the personality trait of envy is. This suggests that: envy is mostly due to genes, envy is mostly due to environment, envy is not likely inherited, envy is the product of both genes and environment, buss made an error. Traits related to action of more than 1 gene or chromosome. Genetic disorders: pku, tay sachs disease. Look at retina hole in order to diagnose disease. Disinitgration of the retina; loss of sight. At first, normal development, then, blind, deaf and unable to swallow. Fatal by age 4: huntington"s disease. Rare dominant genes on autosome pair 4. Onset: 35 45 years of age. People don"t know until 30 40 years later. Terminal in 10 20 years: very slow. Enlarged ventricles & cortical degeneration: ventricles are not supposed to be that large, almost a hole.