PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Autosome, Phenotype, Cytosine
12 Feb 2015
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22 of the chromosomes are called autosome and the 23rd chromosomes is the sex chromosome that determines ones sex (xx for female; xy for male: reproduction is the most fundamental genetic process that takes place in our bodies. (body cells) aka mitosis: each parent cell produces two identical child cells (germ cell) aka meiosis: the process y when the germ cells produce 4 gametes (sperm and ova) each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. T: base pairs determine the coding information carried by the gene, during cell divison the helix unzips **, alleles: genes for the same triat located in the same place on a pair of chromosomes. (eye color, nose shape, etc, structural genes: guide the production of proteins which serve many different functions in various parts f the body, regulatory genes is to control the activities of the structural genes.
