Pass it On
He developed his influential theory after studying differences among wildlife in the Galapagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Research intended to show the relative contributions of heredity and environment by examining individuals born from the same mother at the same time.
What are twin studies?
Deoxyribonucleic acid, a complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes, is also known by these three letters.
What is DNA?
This is the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
What is the nature-nurture issue?
These are the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes.
What are genes?
Research that investigates the relationships among genetic and environmental factors by comparing differing parent-child pairings, some biologically linked and others not.
What are adoption studies?
The threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes.
What are chromosomes?
This includes every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us.
What is our environment?
What is evolutionary psychology?
These develop from separate fertilized eggs. They are genetically no closer than ordinary brothers and sisters, but they share a prenatal environment.
What are fraternal (dizygotic) twins?
This part of the human cell contains the Chromosomes.
What is the nucleus?
This is the interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another factor, such as heredity.
What is interaction?
The genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
These develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two.
What are identical or monozygotic twins?
The complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism’s chromosomes.
What is a genome?
These involve research conducted among siblings, parents, or children to assess evidence for genetic links for characteristics or outcomes, often related to health or disease.
What are family studies?
The idea that inherited traits that allow an organism to survive and reproduce will be passed on to succeeding generations.
What is Natural Selection?
Even identical twins may not be 100% identical, due to the fact that environment can influence genetic expression, otherwise known as this.
What is epigenetics?
When genes are "turned on" and direct the development of proteins that influence development, it is said that the genes are ____________.
What is "expressed"?
This is a social and political philosophy, based loosely on Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory, that seeks to eradicate genetic defects and improve the genetic makeup of populations through selective human breeding.
What is eugenics?