Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Woodworking, Phenotype, Psych

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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Chromosomes and genes: hippocrates suggested that semen contains some sort of design for the formation of offspring, mendel in the 1860"s performed research on garden peas beginning of modern genetic theory. Dominant and recessive genes: one of the reasons that genotypes differ from phenotypes is that genes are dominant or recessive. Brown vs blue eyes: brown is dominant, blue is recessive. Behaviour genetics techniques: we get half of our genetic material from each parent. Human growth hormone: knockout procedure: alter a specific gene in a way that prevents it from carrying out its normal function. Is a change over time in the frequency with which particular genes and the characteristics they produce occur within a population: biologically based mechanisms: that receive input from the environment, process the info and respond to it. Charles darwin: the voyage of the beagle, problem #1, some believed that species didn"t change, they were just knocked off by.