PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Noncoding Dna, Parenting Styles, Dialectic
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Shared and nonshared environments: one way of thinking about environmental influences on characteristics such as height or personality is to identify aspects of the environment that are shared and unshared among relatives living together in a household, shared environments includes aspects of the family environment that are generally the same for all the children in the household including physical, psychological, and social aspects. Indeed, about 75% of the plants in the next generation were smooth and 25% were wrinkled: from such observations, mendel developed two hypotheses, part of what we now consider his first law of inheritance, first, each parent plant passes on one form of the gene (which he called element) for a given characteristic to its offspring, who get two forms of the gene, one from each parent (note that different forms of the same gene is called alleles).
