PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Learning Theory, Y Chromosome, Prenatal Nutrition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

46 chapters: 23 donated from mother"s eggs, 23 donated by father"s sperm. Behaviour geneics: the study of the relaive power and limits of geneic and environmental inluences on behaviour. Environment: non geneic inluences from prenatal nutriion to the people around us. Chromosomes: threadlike structures made of dna molecules that contain the genes. Dna: a complex molecule containing the geneic informaion that makes up the chromosome. Genes: biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; a segment of dna capable of synthesizing a protein. Genome: the complete instrucions for making an organism, consising of all the geneic material in that organism"s chromosomes. Idenical twins: develop from a single (monozygoic) ferilized egg that splits in two, creaing two geneically idenical organisms. Fraternal twins: twins who develop from separate (dizygoic) ferilized eggs they are geneically no closer than brothers and sisters. Molecular geneics: the subield of biology that studies the molecular structure and funcion of genes.