PSY 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prenatal Nutrition, Epigenetics, Heritability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Nature, nurture, and human diversity: behaviour genetics: predicting individual differences. Behaviour genetics: study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental in uences on behaviour. Environment: every non genetic in uence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us. Chromosomes: threadlike structures made of dna molecules that contain the genes. Dna: complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes. Genes: the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes, segments of dna capable of synthesizing proteins. Genome: the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic. Cell > nucleus > chromosome > gene > dna material in that organism"s chromosomes. Everybody has small differences within gene sites in human dna. Put the following cell structures in order from smallest to largest: nucleus, gene, chromosome. When the mother"s egg and the father"s sperm unite, each contributed 23 ____: twin and adoption studies a)