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