PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Near-Sightedness, Birth Weight
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Chromosomes: a carrier of genes, one of the 46 coding molecules of dna (in 23 pairs) that contains the instructions to make proteins. Virtually every cell of the human body contains the. 46 molecules and therefore all of our genes. The chemical composition of the molecules that contain the genes, which are the chemical instructions for cells to manufacture various proteins. The instructions are organized into genes, the basic unit for transmitting heredity. Each variation of particular gene called an allele this variation makes it different in some way from other genes for the same characteristics. Meiosis: the biological process of cell division resulting in gametes that have 23 chromosomes, which is half the amount of genetic material normally seen in a human cell. Mitosis: the biological process of cell division resulting in bodily cells that are exact copies of their parent cells and have a full of 46 chromosomes.
