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Mind Map by Otis Geddes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Otis Geddes
about 8 years ago
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Galton
- Personality
- Nature, which is inherited at birth
- How many of our
characteristics are determined
at birth?
- Some humans acquire many
characteristics at birth. They are
known as nativists
- Many diseases are determined by
genetic inheritance such as
Huntington's, cystic fibrosis, etc.
- How are genetic diseases passed
down from parent to offspring?
- Genetically inherited diseases are caused
by a mutation in one copy of a gene. If a
parent has a dominant genetic disease the
child has a 50% chance of inheriting the
disease.
- Genetically inherited diseases are caused
by a mutation in one copy of a gene. If a
parent has a dominant genetic disease the
child has a 50% chance of inheriting the
disease.
- How are genetic diseases passed
down from parent to offspring?
- Some humans acquire many
characteristics at birth. They are
known as nativists
- Nurture, which is experienced from birth onward
- Eugenics
- Humans can be bread from birth to improve genetic quality of a
population
- Positive
- Manipulating human heredity or
breeding to produce superior people
- Sexual education, abortions, tax
incentives for parents, etc.
- Sexual education, abortions, tax
incentives for parents, etc.
- Manipulating human heredity or
breeding to produce superior people
- Negative
- Improving the quality of the human
race by eliminating biologically
inferior people.
- Nazi Germany
- Sought to create master Aryan race by eliminating
other races, the disabled, etc.
- Sought to create master Aryan race by eliminating
other races, the disabled, etc.
- Nazi Germany
- Improving the quality of the human
race by eliminating biologically
inferior people.
- Positive
- Humans can be bread from birth to improve genetic quality of a
population
- In 1875 Galton studies 159 pairs of
twins. He found that twins did not
follow normal distribution of similarity
but were either very alike or not at all.
- Eugenics
- Where nature and nurture are forced to compete,
nature triumphs
- Nature, which is inherited at birth
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