What Does Recent Research Conclude About the Roles of Nature

question 79

Multiple Choice

What does recent research conclude about the roles of nature and nurture?

• A) It suggests that genetics may be much more important that social factors in the study of human socialization.
• B) It has been able to show that as predicted by earlier theorists,a person's genes are largely irrelevant to their behaviour.
• C) Environmental factors do not help us understand human development in the individual.
• D) The traditional line between nature and nurture is much blurrier than we had previously thought.

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Definitions:

Maxillary

Pertaining to the maxilla or the upper jawbone, which holds the upper teeth and plays a key role in the formation of the roof of the mouth, the floor of the orbit, and the sides and floor of the nasal cavity.

Maxilla

The upper jawbone, forming the central part of the face above the mouth.

Meniscus

A crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous structure in the knee that acts as a shock absorber between the thigh bone and the shin bone.

Menisc

A crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous anatomical structure that partly divides a joint cavity and can refer specifically to the ones in the knee.