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what are behavioral genetics?

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how genes from your parents influence behavior

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what is a zygote?

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A single celled organism that everyone starts as made of a sperm and an egg

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what does heterozygous mean?

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Different genes

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what does homozygous mean?

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Same gene

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What is a genotype?

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fixed set of genes that cannot be changed

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What is a phenotype?

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how do you change or expressed how you look can be changed

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what is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?

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Genotypes are fixed and unchangeable while phenotypes can be changed

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What does polygenic traits mean?

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traits determined by more than one gene, (example: skin color, athletic ability)

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how many chromosomes are in each human cell?

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46 chromosomes or 23 pairs

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