Becoming a Parent/Genetics Test Review Flashcards
A male desires a female younger than himself because?
So she can bear his children and pass on his genes. She has younger ova, etc.
A female chooses a male who’s older than herself because?
He can offer resources necessary to support a family.
Two characteristics she especially looks for are?
Ambition, intelligence, & age
The famous munk scientist that initiated genetic experiments to develop specialized characteristics for hardier plants?
Gregor Mendel
Long Answer
Like a journal
Ann Anastasi says the important question is, “How heredity (nature) and environment (nurture) work together to make us what we are?”. Discuss the statement with examples and relate it to intelligence.
It’s possible for genesis to estimate the heritability of measured intelligence. That’s how smart you are depends on both your inherited factors as well as the environment you grew up in. Genetics account for about 50% of your environment and 50% for genetics. Genetic endowment is more evident as you age. Remember, as you get older you’re going to be more like your biological parents as far as IQ goes. IQ increases from 50% in childhood to 80% in adulthood. Environment decreases from 30% in childhood to 0% in adulthood. Adoptive kids IQ is more like the biological parents, but can increase to up to 20 points if adopted into an intellectually stimulating home. Environmental factors influence how one’s genotype or genetic makeup is translated into a phenotype of actual traits. You may be born with a genetic propensity, but your environment often determines the outcome. Ex, diabetes or Jeanie. However, somethings like the most heritable traits like eye color are solely genetic. The most variable are our attitudes and social skills, etc. Which are more related to environment. Ex, Jeanie may have been born with the inherited genotype to be a nuclear physicist, extremely intelligent, but because of her abusive environment, with no stimulation from the outside world, her actual phenotype ended up with her not progressing to a level of more than a 5 year old.
Matching
Matching
Males are born with an extra X chromosome XXY, they are sterile, and develop feminine characteristics at puberty, such as enlarged breasts.
Klinefelter’s syndrome
A serious mental illness that involves disturbances in logical thinking, emotional expression, and social behaviour.
Schizophrenia
This is also known as the German Measels, if the pregnant mom is exposed early in pregnancy the baby could be born with sight, hearing, heart problems or dead.
Rubella
This disease produces an accumulation of fat in the brain, usually killing the victim in early childhood, most common in French Canadians and Eastern Europeans , Jewish folks.
Tay-Sach’s Disease
These children cannot metabolize Phenylalanine, found in food because they lack the necessary enzyme. Phenylalanine accumulates in the body, converting to an acid that attacks nervous system..
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
A disease more prevalent in African American children, comes from 2 recessive genes, one inherited from each parent, where kids experience painful swelling of joints, severe fatigue, and die in adolescence. Blood cells are not the normal round shape, but more crescent shaped.
Sickle Cell Disease
This disease strikes in middle age, symptoms include dementia, loss of cognitive abilities as well as personality changes, drunk and jerky walk, slurred speech, etc. Eventually death.
Huntington’s Disease
Another name for trisomy 21, 3 x’s on chromosome 21 rather 2. XXX, characteristics are distinctive eyelid folds, short stubby limbs, thick tongues, and mental retardation.
Down Syndrome
A disease in which the blood won’t clot and the victim could bleed to death, a mutant from Queen Victoria, most common in males.
Hemophilia
Females are born missing an X chromosome, so XO, they are sterile and preform below average..
Turner Syndrome
Part B
Matching
The actual characteristics or traits of the way a person actually thinks, looks, behaves, feels, becomes..
Phenotype
Before pairs of chromosomes separate they line up and cross each other and parts are exchanged.
Crossing over
The name for people who carry a gene, usually recessive not always, for a disease that they may not get themselves, but may pass on to offspring. Ex, Sickle cell.
Carrier
Weaker, less frequent characteristics. Ex, Blue eyes
Recessive
When traits are not attributable to a single gene, but rather to multiple pairs.
Polygenic
