PSY 1102 Midterm: PSY1102 –Midterm 1 Notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

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Introduction: nature: genetics, genes, dna, nurture: all factors that are not genetics, learning and experiencing, who we are is determined by nature and nurture. There is an influence and effect with nature and nurture interaction. The nature component: genes: our biological blueprint. Genes are found in dna molecules, which are found in chromosomes. Genes are the basic unit of heredity, linked and associated to proteins. Genes can be active (expressed) and inactive (unexpressed/dormant) They are groups of genes working together to produce something, such as traits. Genes are made up of nucleotides which are biomechanical bases. There are four types: a, g, c, t. Nucleotides are known as the alphabet of life because it is the sequence of the nucleotides that determine our characteristics. Every human being is 99. 99% genetically similar to other human beings. There is no such thing as race, it is biologically meaningless concept (social construct created by us: evolutionary psychology (ep)