(1) Behavioral Genetics

What are brains made up of?

Cells, which are made of proteins that are coded by DNA

DNA code serves as instructions for making...

Different kinds of proteins

What creates neuronal diversity?

The precise order and timing of gene expression

Overall, is the blueprint for a brain conserved across evolution?

Yes

What is a genotype?

Sequence of letters of your genome

What is a phenotype.

Measurable trait- height, weight, how high you can jump, blood type

What is epigenetics?

Environments can have its effects by altering gene expression

What is heritability?

How much of a phenotype is inherited, presumably due to its genetic factors

What do twin studies show about the heritability of phenotypes?

Many phenotypes are somewhat inheritable & more inheritable in monozygotic vs dizygotic twins

What is heritability a fraught topic?

You can’t make accurate predictions on phenotypes based on genotypes

Why can’t you make accurate predictions about a phenotype based on genotype?

Because you don’t know the environment someone is in