PSYCH 230 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heritability, Electrodermal Activity, Agonist
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Period: acetylcholine, action potential, altricial species, altruism, amino acid. Neurotransmitters: axon, backcross, blastula, cadherin, catecholamines, cell adhesion molecules (cams, c-fos, chemical synapse, chimeric, chromosome, cistron, convergent selection, cortical barrel field, dendrites, directional selection. Minimum length of time after an action potential during which another action potential cannot begin. May decrease heart rate, constrict eye pupil, have visceral effects. A neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon. Organisms that lack adult like traits and are dependent and helpless at the beginning of life. Doing something to benefit others at the cost of yourself. A class of small molecule neurotransmitters, which includes the amino acids glutamate and gaba. Long transmitting antennae of neuron that can be 0-3ft uu-cc x un-cn cross for honeybees. An animal embryo at the early stage of development when it is a hollow ball of cells. It is during this stage that biologists insert new dna into the embryonic stem cells of mice.
