Psych 250 Chapter Three

What is the term for a person's genetic potential?

What is the term for a person's directly observable characteristics resulting from both heredity and environment?

What is the term for what carries the genetic instructions for making proteins?

What is the term for what stores/transmits DNA?

What is the term for segments of DNA located along the chromosomes that contain genetic information?

What is the term for the code for making a human?

What is the term for two forms of a gene that appear at the same place on both chromosomes in a pair?

What is the term for when the genetic effects add up to create the phenotype?

What is the term for when both alleles of a gene (dominant and recessive) are expressed?

What is the term for the fact that most traits are affected by multiple genes?

What is the term for what refers to a person's unique genetically determined response to the environment?

What is the term for when a zygote has too few or too many chromosomes?