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Section I Becoming Parents
  1. Conception
    1. Changing Ideas about Conception
    2. How Fertilization Takes Place
  2. What Causes Multiple Births?
  3. Infertility
Section II Mechanisms of Heredity
  1. The Genetic code
  2. What Determines Sex?
  3. Patterns of Genetic Transmission
    1. Dominant and Recessive Inheritance
    2. Genotypes and Phenotypes: Multifactorial Transmission
  4. Genetic and Chromosomal Abnormalities
    1. Defects Transmitted by Dominant or Recessive Inheritance
    2. Defects Transmitted by Sex-Linked Inheritance
    3. Genome Imprinting
    4. Chromosomal Abnormalities
    5. Genome Imprinting
  5. Genetic Counseling and Testing
Section III Nature and Nurture: Influences of Heredity and Environment
  1. Studying the Relative Influences of Heredity and Environment
    1. Measuring Heritability
    2. Effects of the Prenatal Environment
  2. How Heredity and Environment Work Together
    1. Reaction Range and Canalization
    2. Genotype-Environment Interaction
    3. Genotype-Environment Correlation
    4. What Makes Siblings So Different? The Nonshared Environment
  3. Some Characteristics Influenced by Heredity and Environment
    1. Physical and Physiological Traits
    2. Intelligence and School Achievement
    3. Personality
    4. Psychopathology





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