Week 2a: Genetics

Gillooly

Mother/Infant Bonding

importance of nurture: early nurturing experiences are lifelong, which is why relationships with mothers are very important as they are the first stepping stone to building trust in future

Inheritance

genes that are received and passed down from parents to offspring

Dominant Traits

more influential than recessive and are able to completely control a phenotype even if a recessive gene is present

Recessive Traits

they are only shown after both recessive genes are passed down from carriers

X-linked

a gene carried only on the X chromosome

phenotype usually appears only in males because they have only one X

Punnett Squares

allow us to see the possible phenotypes and genotypes of offspring based on parents genes