Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Phenylalanine, Tay–Sachs Disease, Soybean

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

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Identical twins don"t have to be or look identical all the time. Physical attributes are not always similar due to environmental influences. Q: if you have dark hair if we examined your karyotype we would find that your alleles for hair colour were: homozygous, heterozygous, mixed, on different pairs of chromosomes, a or b. Does not indicate extent to which genes are responsible for expression of trait\ Taps relative contribution of genes to overall variation in population. 0: h2= 0, but genes are responsible for expression of hair colour, h2 increases as genetic diversity increases, h2 decreases as environmental diversity increases. Galton; hereditary genius: 1869 relatives of intelligent people, intelligence was genetically based, studied famous people (the intelligent ones) To see if they were intelligent too, and they were: adopted sons were not intelligent or successful, measures simple motor and sensory abilities.