Unit 1.1: Interaction of Heredity and Environment

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Nature-Nurture Issue

People’s behavior driven by genetics OR experiences

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natural selection

Nature selecting traits that best allows an organism to survive and reproduce

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evolutionary psychology

how the behavior and the mind evolved through natural selection

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behavior genetics

how the genes and environment influence behavior

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mutation

a random change in a gene

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environment

all non-genetic influences on us

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heredity

the passing of genetic traits from parents to children

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genes

the heredity units that carry traits

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genome

the instructions for making an organism

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identical (monozygotic) twins

twins from one egg that carry the same genes

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fraternal (dizygotic) twins

twins from two separate eggs

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interact

genes and environment working together to affect behavior

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epigenetics

how the environment affects a person’s genes