Nature vs Nurture

The school of thought focuses on how much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences

• Behavior genetics

• Genes

• Environment

• Chromosomes

The biochemical units of heredity that make up chromosomes

The environment involves the genetic influence

• True

• False

Threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain genes​ (a)  

• Chromosomes
• DNA
• Genes

A complex molecule containing the genetic information that makes up chromosomes

• Chromosomes

• Mutation

• Genes

• DNA

Random errors in gene replication that lead to a change in the individual's genetic code and are the source of all genetics

​ (a)   develop from two different fertilized eggs, whereas ​ (b)   develop from a single fertilized egg that splits in two.

• Fraternal twins
• Identical twins

The shared attitudes, beliefs, norms, and behaviors of a group communicated from one generation to the next.

Understood rules for accepted and expected behavior

If you had an identical twin, what similarities would you like to have? What would you like to be different from that twin?