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Assignment:
1. Are babies born with NAS more likely to experience substance use later in life?
2. What's common reason miscarriages occur?
3. Why do women experience nausea and vomiting in pregnancy?
Stages of Pregnancy
Fetal stage
What is the timeframe here? What types of things develop within the embryo during this timeframe?
Fetal motor activity:
- What does this progression look like?
- When do most women report feeling fetal movement by?
- What's the purpose of some specific fetal movements, from an evolutionary perspective?
What can a fetus experience, in terms of senses? What's developed? What's not?
Make sure you understand the gist fetal learning studies: "carrot juice" study," and "cat in the hat" study
Nature of Nature (sec 2.1)
- Why do we talk about heredity in psych class?
- Know the basics of chromosomes and genes from the first few slides
- Know the difference between single gene vs. polygenic traits - which is more common?
- How was King Henry VIII relevant to this lecture?
Genetic Abnormalities (sec 2.2)
1. Know these key terms: dominant vs. recessive, homozygous vs. heterozygous, genotype vs. phenotype, alleles, autosomes vs. sex chromosomes
2. Do you understand how Mendelian inheritance patterns work? Could you work out an example with a punnet square?
3. What would need to happen to inherit an autosomal recessive disorder?
a. What three autosomal recessive disorders did we discuss?
- I'd know specifics for each of the three disorders -- Why does each it occur (i.e., what happens biologically)? What happens when a baby has it (i.e., signs, symptoms, or consequences)? What is the treatment?