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| what is Fetal Achohal Syndrome? |
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| happens when mother's drink during pregnanacy and it can cause abnormalities and mental retardation in children. |
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| to make an genetic copy of an individual. |
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| union of sperm and ovum fuse to produce a zygote; also called conception. |
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| one-celled oranism resulting from fertilization. |
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| dizygotic (two egged-twins) |
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| egg division or twins conceived by the union of two different ova (eggs) or a fraternal twins |
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| monozygotic (one-egg twins) |
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| cell divison...identical twins resulting form the division of a single zygote after fertalization. |
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| characteristic dispostion, or style of appraoching and reacting to situations. |
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| DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid)? |
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| the chemical that carries inherited instructions for the formation and function of body cells. |
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| sequences of base pairs within DNA, whihc determine inherited characteristics. |
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| coils of DNA that carries genes. |
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| small segments of DNA located in definite postions on particular chromosomes. |
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| complete sequence or mapping of genes in the human body and their locations. |
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| the 22 pairs of chromosomes not related to sexual expression. |
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| X and Y. Only boys have Y. XX girl. XY boy. |
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| paired genes (alike or different) that affect a trait. |
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| prosessing tow identical alleles for a trait. |
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| possessing differing alleles for a trait. |
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| pattern of inheritence in which. when a child recieves contradictory alleles, only the dominant one is expressed. |
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| pattern of inheritanc ein which a child recieves identical recessive alleles, resulting in the expression of a nondominant trait. |
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| pattern of inheritanc ein which multoly genes affect a complex trait. |
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| multifactorial transmission? |
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| combination of genetic and environ-mental factors to produce certain complex traits. |
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| observible characteristics of a perosn. |
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| genetic makeup of a person, containing both expressed and unexpressed characteristics. |
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| perminant alteration in the sequences or order of the genes or chromosomes that may produce harmful characteristics. |
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| partial expression of a trait. |
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| pattern of inheritance in which certain characteristics carried on the X chromosomes inherited from the mother are transimited differently to her mlae and female offspring. often only in males and it can be color blindness etc. |
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| down syndrome (chromosomal abnormality) |
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| moderate to sever mentla retardation and by physical sugns such as a downward sloping skin aorund the eyes |
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| clinical service that avises couples of their probable risk of having children with hereditary defects. |
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| quantita-tive study of relative hereditary and enviromental influences certian traits. It is a quanitative study appraoch. |
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| statistical estimate of contribution of heredity to individual differences in a specific trait within a given population. |
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| term describing twins who share the same trait or disorder. |
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potential variability, depending on enviromental conditions, in the epression of a hereditary trait.
ex. Ranges of size that a body could "biologically be." |
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liminatation on the variance of an expression of inherited characteristics.
some traits are strongly programmed, such as eye color. |
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| genotype-enviroment interaction? |
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the portion of a phenotypic variation that results from the reactions of genetically different individuals to similar enviromental conditions.
like people who gentically are allergic to flowers and those experiance them and are not. |
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| genotype-environment correlation? |
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tendency of certain gentic and environmental influences to reinforce one another. (covariance)
1. passive --musical parent, musical environment.
2. reactive muscial child special effort for piano in house.
3. active chose thier own activity or likes. |
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| nonshared environmental effects? |
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| the unique environment in which each child grows up, it consists of distincive influences or influences that affect one child differently than another. |
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| mental disrode rmarked by loss of contact with reality; synmponts include hallucinations and delusions. |
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| pervasive development disorder pf the brain, you have lack of normal social interactsion, impaired communication, etc. |
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| developmetn happens in a head to tail direction, upper parts of the body develop befor ethe lower parts. |
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| development happens from within to wiuhtout, stuff near the center of the body develops before the outer "extremities" |
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| first 2 weeks of prenatal development.rapid cell division and increasing complexity. egg is planted on the uterus wall. |
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| second stag eof gestation (2 to 8 weeks) characterized by rapid growth and development of major body systems and organs. |
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| natural explusion form the uterues. a miscarriage. |
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| natural explusion form the uterues. a miscarriage. |
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| final stage of gestation (8 weeks ot birth) increased detail of body parts and the body beocmes much bigger. |
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| high frequency sound waves to detect the outline of the fetus and its movements and its health and gender. |
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| can cause birht deffects. like smoking or etc. |
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| a combination of mentla motor and evelopmental activites. |
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| can cause birht deffects. like smoking or etc. |
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| AIDS acquirred immune defieciency syndrome |
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| undermines the immune systmes functiong |
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