A child's development is primarily due to
A) the genes she inherits from both of her parents.
B) only the genes she inherits from her mother.
C) the environment in which she is raised.
D) the interaction of inherited genes and her environment.
Question 2
Priya says that children will grow up to be just like their parents and that nothing that happens to them will change this. Festus says that events and cultural factors are what make individuals develop over time. Which of the basic questions that define the nature of development are they discussing?
A) Universality
B) Continuity
C) Malleability
D) Causality
Enamel defects due to malnutrition in a child from the Illinois valley (A.D. 600-1200).
Fetal Development Timelines
Genes are composed of a sequence of nucleotides in a DNA molecule
The three possible sequences of the white, yellow, and echinus genes
Human embryo at successive stages of development (not to scale).
Mutations in human mitochondrial genes leading to disease syndromes