PSYC 107 1nd Edition Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture I Psychoactive Drugs II Three Main Class III Near Death Experiences IV Test Reminders Outline of Current Lecture I What Makes You You II Behavior Genetics III Twins and Adoptions Current Lecture I What Makes You You a Behavior Genetics Genes b Evolutionary Psychology Natural Selection c Parents and Peers d Culture e Gender Development II Behavior Genetics a Behavior Geneticist studies our differences and weigh the effects of heredity and environment i Gene holds the information that determines the biology of a person thing ii Dominant genes are the ones that are more prominent iii Everyone inherits 23 chromosomes from each parent 1 Each parent donates one half of the trait 2 Exceptions a Eye color b Thumb crossing These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute c Ear lobes b Genome i Genetic code ii Set of complete instructions for making an organism and contains all the genes for that organism iii Psychological and biological activity is caused by multiple genes iv Human genome project is being developed to try to help determine which genes affect what III Twins and Adoptions a Identical twins i Genetically identical ii Share the same fetal environment iii One gamete separates into two b Fraternal twins i Share same fetal environments ii However they are as genetically similar as if they had another sibling iii Two separate gametes iv Separated twins share fetal environment but not home environment
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