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Question 1

Environment

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

Question 2

Chromosomes

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Threadlike structured made of DNA molecules that contain the genes

Question 3

DNA

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

Question 4

Genes

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

Question 5

Genome

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

Question 6

A small difference in DNA…

Answer 6

Goes a long way

Question 7

Our genetic traits help explain….

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Our shared human nature and our human diversity

Question 8

Identical twins

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

Question 9

Twins share the same genes….

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But don’t have the same number of copies

Question 10

One twin’s placenta may…..

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supply better nourishment than the other

Question 11

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

Question 12

Identical twins are more similar…

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Than fraternal twins in outgoingness and emotional instability

Question 13

Separated twins live…

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Identical lifestyles

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Virtual twins

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Same age, biologically unrelated siblings

Question 15

Genetic relatives

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Biological parents and siblings

Question 16

Adoptees are more like their….

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Biological parents than their adopted ones

Question 17

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

Question 18

If everything is equal and healthy…

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Then heritability would increase

Question 19

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

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Heredity would be lower

Question 20

Putting people in new social context….

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Can change aggressiveness

Question 21

Genes and environment- nature and nurture-

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Work together like two hands clapping

Question 22

Genes are

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Self regulating

Question 23

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)

Question 24

Environments trigger…

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Gene activity

Question 25

Nature...

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Via nurture

Question 26

Molecular genetics

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

Genetic tests can now reveal...

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At risk populations for many diseases

Question 29

Behavior genetics

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