PSY-279 Chapter 3 – Flashcards
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All human babies, regardless of which cultures they live in or which language is spoken around them, begin to babble at about the same age. This is an example of
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species heredity
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The idea that some genes aid in adaptation more than others is known as
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natural selection
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The main point of evolution is that development
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involves an interaction between genetic and environmental forces
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The belief that we in merit tried and true ways of adjusting to the environment from past generations is referred to as
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cultural evolution
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Which statement is true?
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Genes consist of thousands of chromosomes
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A gene
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when combined with a second gene will produce a chromosome
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The purpose of the Human Genome Project was to
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map the sequence of strands of DNA in human chromosomes
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Genotype is most accurately described as
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your inherited genes
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The term _____ refers to the actual characteristics a person exihibits
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phenotype
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The activation of a particular gene is a particular cell at a particular time of life is referred to as gene
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expression
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During his groundbreaking genetic work with peas, the 19th-century monk Gregor Mendel found that dominant charaacteristics
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appeared more often in later generations than opposite traits
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If a person needs one matching pair of genes in order to express the characteristic carried by a pair of genes, the characteristic is considered
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a mutation
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Color blindness and hemophilia are examples of
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sex-linked inheritance
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Most complex human characteristics, such as personality ad intelligence, are inherited via
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a single gene pair
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Which disorder is the result of a chromosomal abnormality?
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Down Syndrome
