Your textbook notes the following three key concepts in biology. ...

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Your textbook notes the following three key concepts in biology. For each one, provide a potential real-life example illustrating each of these principles:  Heredity and environment interact dynamically throughout development..  Genes can influence the kind of environment to which a person is exposed..  Environmental influences typically make children within a family different..
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Individual differences in height and weight are more marked in middle childhood than they are in early childhood.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Answer to Question 1

Students should provide feasible examples of each of the three concepts noted above. An example of each, some noted by the textbook, is provided below:
a . If a child receives the recessive homozygous trait for the disease phenylketonuria from his or her parents, they will be born with PKU. If the child is tested at birth and the disease is identified, the parents can control and essentially eliminate the effects of PKU by monitoring and limiting the child's intake of the amino acid phenylalanine. Later, when the child is old enough to control this dietary issue on his/her own, the disease can continue to be muted.
b . If a child is born with the genotype to grow to a tall height and to develop that phenotype early, the child may opt to spend more time playing basketball, volleyball, or other athletics that reward height. The person who selects environments that are consistent with their genetics is engaging in niche-picking.
c . As much as parents may like to think that they treat their children equally, it is more likely that children are parented with differences, some subtle and some large. If a parent recognizes different skills, tendencies, or characteristics in their children, they may interact with the children in ways that encourage and promote those different tendencies. Thus, children who are raised in the same home may have different environmental influences that promote differences between them.

Answer to Question 2

True