Unit 1 APP

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• Nature vs Nurture

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• longstanding controversy over the relative contributions (which one contributes more) that genes and experience make on the development of psychological traits and behaviors

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Evolutionary Psychology

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• the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind through the process of natural selection

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Mutations

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• a random error in gene replication that leads to a change

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Environment

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• every nongenetic influence, prenatal nutrition to experiences and people around us

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Heredity

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Genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring

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Genes

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biochemical units of heredity

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Genome

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instructions for making an organism

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Identical (monozygotic) twins

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 individuals split from a single fertilized egg, creating 2 genetically identical organisms

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Fraternal (dizygotic) twins

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individuals from separate fertilized eggs, like normal siblings but were in the womb together

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Epigenetics

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• molecular mechanisms by which environments can influence genetic expression