Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 03 Vocabulary
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| Chromosomes | show 🗑
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| show | A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes. (A DNA molecule has two strands - forming a "double helix" - held together by two bonds between pairs of nucleotides.)
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| Genes | show 🗑
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| show | The complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in its chromosomes. The human genome has 3 billion weakly bonded pairs of nucleotides organized as coiled chains of DNA.
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| Natural selection | show 🗑
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| Mutation | show 🗑
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| Evolutionary psychology | show 🗑
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| Gender | show 🗑
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| Behavior genetics | show 🗑
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| Environment | show 🗑
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| show | Twins who develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two, creating two genetically identical organisms.
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| Fratenal twins | show 🗑
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| show | A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
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| show | The proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes. The heritability of a trait may vary, depending on the range of population and environment studied.
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| show | The dependencies of the effect of one factor (such as environment) on another factor (such as heredity).
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| show | The subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes.
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| show | The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.
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| show | An understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. Norms prescribe "proper" behavior.
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| show | The buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies.
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| show | Self-replication ideas, fashions, and innovations passed from person to person.
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| show | The sex chromosome found in both men and women. Females have two X chromosomes; males have one. An X chromosome from each parent produces a female child.
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| show | The most important of the male sex hormones. Both males and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the developement of the male sex characteristics during puberty.
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| show | One's sense of being male or female.
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| Gender-typing | show 🗑
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| show | The theory that we learn social behaviors by observing and imitating and by being rewarded or punished.
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| show | The theory that children learn from their cultures a concept of what it means to be male and female and that they adjust their behavior accordingly.
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