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Unformatted text preview: • What are hox genes and what do they do ? –small group of genes that set up a body plan • How do our genes operate ? – • How does the makeup of a promoter affect our mental or physical development ? – turn on and turned off at certain ages: language- easier at younger age when promoter is turned on. It becomes harder to learn a language as we grow older because the promoters are turned off. • Why we turn out the way we do – examples : 1. Language – 2. Love – 3. Antisocial behavior – Page 2 of 2 4. Homosexuality – • The Bottom Line –...
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- Spring '08
- SULLIVAN
- Sociology, DNA, younger age
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