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Flashcards by Anneliese Shaw, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Anneliese Shaw
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Eugenics movement | A movement that advocated the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of reproduction of people with desired traits and limiting reproduction of people with undesirable traits. |
| Scientific racism | The manipulation of scientific theories and methods to justify the belief in racial superiority or inferiority. |
| Genetic code | The rules which govern how information encoded with genetic material (DNA) will be translated into proteins, the building blocks of any living organism. |
| Heritability | The extent to which differences in a trait, characteristic or ability within a population is due to genetic differences. |
| Human genome | The complete set of genetic information contained in the human DNA |
| Ethics | Principles that determine right and wrong conduct. The codes and principles researchers should adhere to. |
| Heritability estimate | An estimate of the extent to which variability in intelligence in the population is accounted for by variability in genes. |
| Equal environment assumption | The assumption in twin studies that twin pairs raised together experience roughly equal environments. |
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