Section 1: Physical Development

2. Genes & the Environment

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Summary and objectives: Nature vs. nurture or nature and nurture?

Explain key concepts like heritability, polygenic variation using terms like dominant, recessive, and homozygous.

  • Identify the different types of gene-environment relationships.
  • Discuss the implications of critical methods and findings like twin and adoption studies and genetic marker studies.
  • Apply your knowledge to discover how knowing about biology might help us change the environment we create for our children?

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3. Prenatal development, birth, & the newborn

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Summary and Objectives

  • Explain key concepts like periods of prenatal developments (using terms like germ disk, blastocyst, vernix, and placenta), stages of birth, and newborn reflexes (like the babinski, palmer, and sucking).
  • Discuss the methods of testing the health of the newborn (CVS, APGAR, Ultrasound).
  • Apply your knowledge and think about Why this matters? by considering the real dangers of fetal alcohol syndrome and teratogens.

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4. Healthy Growth & Nutrition

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Summary and Objectives

  • Explain key concepts like secular growth trends, effects of various hormones, and how nutrition contributes to healthy growth.
  • Apply your knowledge to think about “Why this matters?” and consider the nature of childhood obesity.

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5. Neurological development

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Summary and Objectives

  • Explain key concepts such as neural tube, axon, synapse, dendrite, terminal buttons, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe,
  • Discuss neural development from embryo to adolescence and describe the implications of neural pruning.
  • Apply what you’ve learned to think about “Why this matters?” by looking at the effects of damage at different ages.

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