Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Twin, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mitchel

Document Summary

Chromosomes and genes: mendel"s theory showed that it involves the passing of specific organic factors, not a blending of parents characteristics the factors might show characteristics in the offspring or be carried for transmission to another generation, not all children inherit the same traits like brothers and sisters, genotype is the specific genetic makeup of an individual, it is the command centre, some are used on one occasion and some on another, some are never used because they are contradicted by other genetic directives or because the environment never calls them forth, they are present from conception and never change, phenotypes is the observable characteristics produced by that genetic endowment, can be affected by other genes and by the environment the union between egg and sperm is the beginning of a new individual the gas and sped carry a material of heredity in the form of rodlike units called.