PSYB20H3 Chapter 2: Conception, Heredity, and Environment
Document Summary
Lo1: summarize how conception occurs and describe alternative paths to parenthood. Lo2: explain how traits are passed down across generation. Lo3: describe how abnormalities are transmitted in the genes and the options prospective parents have for testing for them. Lo4: describe how researchers determine the relative influence of genes and environments, and how these variables interact with each other. Lo5: summarize how genes affect physical, intellectual and personality development as well psychopathologies. Fertilization another term for this can be conception, in other words, it can be the sperm or ovum (sex cells) that combines to create single cell called zygote. Zygote produced by the sex cells and then producing multiple of these cells in order to create a baby. Conception will occur only when a male"s sperm cell penetrates a female"s egg cell. When sperms are exposed in the vagina it will try to swim through the cervix (the opening of the uterus) and into the fallopian tubes.
