Matching Quiz

Match the term with the correct definition.


1				Period of rapid physical maturation taking place primarily in early adolescence


2				Powerful chemicals secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the blood stream


3				The main class of male sex hormones


4				The main class of female sex hormones


5				A boy's first ejaculation of semen


6				A girl's first menstrual period

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

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7				Threadlike structures that contain deoxyribonucleic acid


8				A complex molecule that contains genetic information


9				The units of hereditary information


10				A person's genetic heritage


11				The way an individual's genetic material is expressed in observed and measurable characteristics


12				Relationships that occur because biological parents provide a reading environment for the child


13				Relationships that occur because an adolescent's genetically shaped characteristics elicit certain types of environments


14				Relationships that occur because children seek out environments that they find compatible and stimulating


15				The perspective that development is the result of ongoing, bidirectional interchanges between heredity and the environment

Answer choices for questions 7 through 15

A)	Epigentic view
B)	Chromosomes
C)	Gene
D)	Genotype
E)	Passive genotype-environment correlations
F)	Evocative genotype-environment correlations
G)	Active genotype-environment correlations
H)	DNA
I)	Phenotype