Highly Coordinated Children Are Picked Out at an Early Age

question 93

Multiple Choice

Highly coordinated children are picked out at an early age by coaches and given special opportunities to excel at sports. Extraverted children seek out social situations and become unusually comfortable with strangers. Both of these phenomena illustrate ________

• A) the power of the phenotype over the genotype.
• B) genotype-environment correlations.
• C) the polygenic effect of chromosomes on behavior.
• D) how the environment shapes one's genetic endowment.

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Definitions:

Progenitor Cells

Cells that have a capacity to differentiate into a specific type of cell but are less flexible than stem cells in their differentiation potential.

Glia

Non-neuronal cells in the central and peripheral nervous system that provide support and protection for neurons.

Epidermal Growth Factor

Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) is a protein that stimulates cell growth, proliferation, and differentiation by binding to its receptor, EGFR, on the cell surface.

Striatum

Caudate nucleus and putamen of the basal ganglia.