PSYC 302- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
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Heredity and environment work together to influence people: heredity running in families , environment diet. Galton concluded that talent runs families, because very close relatives of an eminent man were likely to be high achievers themselves than were more distant relatives. Mendel characteristics transmitted from parents to offspring. James watson & francis crick identification of the structure of dna. Genotype: the genetic material an individual inherits. Phenotype: the observable expression of genotype, both body characteristics and behaviour. Environment: every aspect of the individual and his or her surroundings other than the genes themselves. Fundamentals of a child"s development: parent"s genotype-child"s genotype: Transmission of genetic material from parent to offspring. Dna carries all the biochemical instructions that are packed in genes. Genes are section of the chromosome which codes for proteins. Genes make up 2% of the human genome, the other portion is junk. Human heredity: humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, half from mother and half from father.
