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| every nongenetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people and things around us. |
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| the study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior. |
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| threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes. |
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| DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) |
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| a complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up the chromosomes. |
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| the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; a segment of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein. |
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