3A - Heredity And Environmental Factors 🌱

Question 1

define ‘psychological development’

Answer 1

the changes in an individual’s social, emotional, and cognitive abilities from infancy through to old age

Question 2

what are genes?

Answer 2

the basic units of heredity or inheritance that contain genetic information and form a sequence of DNA

Question 3

what is heredity?

Answer 3

the passing on of genes or genetic information from parents to their offspring

Question 4

what is a genotype?

Answer 4

all the genes that a person has inherited from their biological parents

Question 5

what is a phenotype?

Answer 5

how a person’s genes are expressed

Question 6

define ‘hereditary factors’

Answer 6

biological influences on development that result from the genetic information passed from biological parents to their offspring

Question 7

define ‘environmental factors’

Answer 7

different external influences within a person’s environment that can affect their development