AP Psychology 2.2.4 Quiz

Human traits are usually:

influenced by genes acting together.

_________ is an example of genetic disorder that is carried by a dominant gene.

Huntington's disease

When both parents' contributions to a gene pair are recessive, the pair is referred to as

a homozygous

A random error in gene replication is called

a mutation

___________ is the branch of genetics that examines the genetic and environmental contributions to personality characteristics and behavior.

behavioral genetics

The effects of parental nurture begin to have an impact on offspring

during the prenatal period

A basically shy individual chooses the relatively solitary occupation of software design as a career. This is an example of

gene-environment interaction

_________ are like the words that make up the "books" of instructions called chromosomes.

Genes

Given a uniform environment, the extent to which trait variation can be attributed to differing genes is called

Heritability

_____________ is a dominant or recessive variant of a particular gene

An allele