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Environment

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Every nongenetic influence from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us

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Chromosomes

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Threadlike structured made of DNA molecules that contain the genes

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DNA

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A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes

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Genes

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The biochemical units of hereditary that make up the chromosomes; segments of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein

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Genome

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The complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism’s chromosomes

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A small difference in DNA…

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Goes a long way

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Our genetic traits help explain….

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Our shared human nature and our human diversity

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Identical twins

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Twins who develop from a single fertilized egg that spits into two, creating two genetically identical organisms

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Twins share the same genes….

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But don’t have the same number of copies

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One twin’s placenta may…..

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supply better nourishment than the other

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Fraternal twins

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Twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs. They are genetically no closer that brothers and sisters, but the share a fetal environment

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Identical twins are more similar…

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Than fraternal twins in outgoingness and emotional instability

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13
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Separated twins live…

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Identical lifestyles

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Virtual twins

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Same age, biologically unrelated siblings

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Genetic relatives

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Biological parents and siblings

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Adoptees are more like their….

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Biological parents than their adopted ones

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Heritability

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The proportion of variation amount individuals that we can attribute to genes. The heritability of a trait may vary, depending in the range of populations and environments studied

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If everything is equal and healthy…

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Then heritability would increase

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If all people had similar heredities. But were raised in different environments…

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Heredity would be lower

20
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Putting people in new social context….

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Can change aggressiveness

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Genes and environment- nature and nurture-

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Work together like two hands clapping

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Genes are

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Self regulating

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Interact

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The interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another factor (such as heredity)

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Environments trigger…

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Gene activity

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Nature…

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Via nurture

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Molecular genetics

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The subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes

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Molecular behavior genetics

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To find some of the many genes that influence normal human traits such as body weight, sexual orientation, and Extraversion, and also to explore the mechanisms that control gene expression

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Genetic tests can now reveal…

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At risk populations for many diseases

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Behavior genetics

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The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior