PSYC 100 Lecture 3: PSYC100-Lecture 3-Genetics and Evolution

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Was a famous artist in thee early 20th century. His children: andrew, henriette, ann, and howard all followed in his artistic footsteps. His grandchildren from andrew and henriette, jamie and michael also became artists. This makes us wonder if creativity could be passed down genetically, and is what we will be discussing in this lecture. Each human is made of 23 pairs of chromosomes. A chromosome is basically instructions on how to create a human. Each pair of chromosomes has one dna strand from the mother and one from the father. A speci c point on the dna strand is called a locus. Inside the locus, we nd a gene. Genes have instructions that tell our bodies what to do with themselves, such as what colour to make our eyes. Alleles are different versions of the same instructions (i. e. both telling your body about an eye colour but one allele says green and the other says blue.