PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lobotomy, Grey Matter, Thymus
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Synesthesia a type of disorder where sensory experiences are crossed colours may evoke smells. Genetics: used to describe how characteristics such as height, hair colour and weight are passed along to offspring through inheritance and also refers to processes involved in turning genes on and off . To understand ourselves fully, we need to . Understand how basic physiological processes such as genetics, affect thoughts and behaviour. Understand how these processes interact with the environment nature vs. The master blueprint entirety of an organisms hereditary information. Within each cell are things called chromosomes, which are structures made up of genes. A typical human being has 23 pairs of chromosome, half of each pair coming from each parent. Each chromosome is made up of a protein and single strand of dna. The sequence of these dna strand specifies an exact instruction to manufacture a particular type of protein (proteins make up structure of cells)
