Genetics
The term refers to an organism's genetic makeup.
What is the genotype?
Controls calcium levels in the body.
What is the parathyroid gland?
The study of interaction of biology, behavior and mental processes.
What is biopsychology?
Controls development of male sexual characteristics, sperm production, and sexual desire in men.
What are the testes?
Drug that inhibits the effects of neurotransmitters.
What is an antagonist?
A long, complex molecule that encodes genetic characteristics.
What is DNA?
Controls glucose metabolism.
What is the pancreas gland?
Field that focuses on the brain and its role in psychological processes.
What is neuroscience?
Controls metabolism, physical growth, and development.
What is the thyroid gland?
The middle layer of the brain involved in emotion and memory.
What is the limbic system?
Consisted primarily of DNA.
Development of female sexual characteristics, production of ova.
What are the ovaries?
Naturalist that gave the idea of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
What is the adrenal glands?
The nervous system's ablilty to change or adapt ad a result of a experience.
What is plasticity?
These are segments of a chromosome that encodes inherited characteristics.
Contains ovaries, testes, breast milk production, metabolism, and reactions to stress.
What is the anterior pituitary gland?
Another term for natural selection.
The pituitary gland is connected to this part of the brain.
What is the hypothalamus?
The brain's central "relay station."
What is the thalamus?
Down syndrome is marked by an extra chromosome on this pair.
What is chromosome 21?
Controls the conservation of water in the body, breast milk secretion, and uterus contractions.
What is the posterior pituitary gland?
The "master gland."
What is the pituitary gland?
The hormone sometimes refered to as adrenalin.
What is epinephrine?
The tendency of each brain hemisphere to exert control over different functions.
What is cerebral dominance?