Summary Nature vs Nurture

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• Lecture 1 history

• Who was sir Galton?

  Nephew of Darwin, was very interested to find out if traits were inherited and performed a study on eminent men.
• What did Watson claim after trials with little albert?

  In the right conditions he can give any baby any traits, with conditioning and stimulus.
• What did Thomas Bouchard study?

  If he reunited separated MZ twins and compared their traits and found that a lot of traits were similar regardless of different nurture.
• What are dizygotic twins?

  Two sperm cells protrude two eggcells and therefore have very different genes.
• What did prof. Buikhuisen postulate?

  He stated that biological factors might be at play regarding levels of aggressiveness.

• DNA basics

• What is a nucleus?

  Container of genetic information the core of the cell
• What is the endoplasmatic reticulum?

  Where the proteins are produced.
• What is a nucleotide and where are the different groups attached?

  A central sugar molecule
  Base groups attached to the 1' position
  Phosphate groups attached to the 5' position
  OH(hydroxyl) group attached to the 3' position
• What are the four different base groups of a nucleotide?

  Adenine(A)
  Thymine(T)
  Cytosine(C)
  Guanine(G)
• How do DNA polymers connect?

  Through their base groups