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Normative Age-Graded Influences Are Developmental Changes That Are Caused by Biological

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Normative age-graded influences are developmental changes that are caused by biological, psychological, and socio-cultural forces.


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Phenotype

The way an individual’s genotype is expressed in observed and measurable characteristics.

Genotype

A person’s genetic heritage; the actual genetic material present in each cell.

Recessive Trait

A genetic characteristic that is expressed in an organism only when two copies of the gene responsible for the trait are present.

Mitosis

Cellular reproduction in which the cell’s nucleus duplicates itself with two new cells being formed, each containing the same DNA as the parent cell, arranged in the same 23 pairs of chromosomes.

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