When an Individual of African Descent Marries and Has Children

question 61

Multiple Choice

When an individual of African descent marries and has children with an individual of European descent their children often have a mid shade of skin color. This can best be described as

• A) X-linked inheritance.
• B) polygenic inheritance.
• C) pleiotropic inheritance.
• D) the dominance of the gene for dark skin tone.

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Definitions:

Repression

A defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory where unwanted or uncomfortable thoughts and memories are pushed into the unconscious mind.

Retroactive Interference

A memory phenomenon where newer information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.

Proactive Interference

A phenomenon where older memories hinder the recall of newer memories, often affecting learning processes and memory retrieval.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory-access to events that occurred or information that was learned before an injury or the onset of a disease.