[BIO2133] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (136 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 2133
• Professor: Colin Montpetit

Document Summary

Make sounds with intonation: 1 year. Vocabulary: one or a few words: 2 years. Extensive vocabulary; can name common objects: 6 years. Socially useful speech; can tell a connected story. Phenotype: an observable characteristic of a gene whether behaviour, physical or biochemical: typical speech development is an example of a phenotype, can be the expression of more than one gene expressed at a time. Ide(cid:374)tificatio(cid:374) of the (cid:862)speech ge(cid:374)e(cid:863) foxp2: the story: in 1990, scientists became interested in the ke family in london, half of whose family members have speech disorders. Used a pedigree to determine if other people in the family are conflicted with this speech problem. The tree could be a phenotype for the existing condition. Any mutations can have an impact on a phenotype. The unaffected gourp when they think about speaking and then speaking, only broccas area lights up. In affected group, everywhere in the brain lights up (phenotype)