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• Are there different personality types? If so, how do traittheorists suggest that we describe and measure them? ● Trait theory psychologists think there are differenttypes (or dimensions) of...
  May 06, 2022
• Somatic cells in organisms of a particulardiploid plant species normally have 14 chromosomes. The chromosomes in thegametes are numbered from 1 through 7. Rarely, zygotes are formed that...
  May 06, 2022
• 1. What do we call aspects of personality that are prettyconsistent? 2. What do we call an individual’s characteristic pattern ofthinking, feeling, and acting?3. One problem with trait...
  May 06, 2022
• Genomes A, B, and C all have basic chromosome numbers ( ) of nine. These genomes were originally derived from plant species that had diverged from each other sufficiently far back in the evolutionary...
  May 06, 2022
• How did psychologists Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, andHans Eysenck identify traits? ● Allport resisted the idea of a “personality law”that would apply to everyone, believing that...
  May 06, 2022
• Fred and Mary have a child with Downsyndrome. A probe derived from chromosome 21 was used to identify RFLPs inFred, Mary, and the child (darker bands indicate signals of twice theintensity)....
  May 06, 2022
• Which best describes how Cattell developed his list of 16personality traits?a. factor analysis to compute the relationships among traitsb. analysis of patients’ unconscious minds and...
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• is a rare phenomenon in which only one of the parents of a child with a recessive disorder is a carrier for that trait; the other parent is homozygous normal. By analyzing DNA polymorphisms, it is...
  May 06, 2022
• Human geneticists interested in the effectsof abnormalities in chromosome number often karyotype tissue obtained fromspontaneous abortions. About 35% of these samples show autosomal trisomies,...
  May 06, 2022
• What are the dimensions of the “Big Five” trait theory? ● Current theorists describe at least five distinctdimensions of personality (the Big Five) and assess these dimensions usingobjective...
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• The Drosophila chromosome 4 is extremelysmall; there is virtually no recombination between genes on this chromosome.You have available three differently marked chromosome 4’s: one has a...
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• Which of the Big Five personality traits would mostinfluence whether a person feels comfortable telling a joke in front of a groupof strangers?a. extraversion                  c....
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• 1. You have haploid tobacco cells inculture and have made transgenic cells that are resistant to herbicide. Whatwould you do to obtain a diploid cell line that could be used to generate a...
  May 06, 2022
• Which statement is a key research finding about the Big Fivepersonality traits?a. The traits match up with those of historical personalitytrait theories.b. The traits affect the...
  May 06, 2022
• An allotetraploid species has a genomecomposed of two ancestral genomes, A and B, each of which have a basicchromosome number (  ) of seven. In thisspecies, the two copies of each chromosome of...
  May 06, 2022
• How do trait theorists assess personality? ● Trait theorists assess personality through objectivepersonality inventories. ● The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(MMPI) uses 10...
  May 06, 2022
• Which statement reveals an important difference betweenobjective and projective tests?a. Objective tests are more personal and reveal deeperissues than projective tests.b. Objective tests...
  May 06, 2022
• In addition to their chromosome, mostbacteria carry plasmids: small circles of double-stranded DNA. Plasmids mayinclude genes that benefit the bacterial host under certain conditions....
  May 06, 2022
• A personality test that shows the same results each time youtake it but whose results do not match your personality has high __________ butlow __________.a. objectivity; projectivityb....
  May 06, 2022
• Transformation is a form of gene transferin which donor DNA that is fl oating free in the growth medium enters arecipient cell. Conjugation is a second form of gene transfer. It depends ondirect...
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• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the trait theory ofpersonality? ● Trait theory describes elements of personality indetail but does not address how important situations are to...
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• 1. The tools of genomics, includingcomparative genome analyses and DNA arrays, have provided new insights intopathogenesis, evolution, and microbial diversity.2. Bacterial genomes contain IS...
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• Which statement is the most valid criticism of the traittheory of personality?a. Trait theory does not help explain why we behave in theways we do.b. Trait theory is based on patient...
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• According to the endosymbiont theory,mitochondria and chloroplasts evolved from bacteria engulfed by the precursorsof eukaryotic cells. The genomes of these organelles have probably lost...
  May 06, 2022
• How do social-cognitive theorists explain the development ofour personality and the relationship among personality, the environment, andbehavior? ● Social-cognitive theorists describe how...
  May 06, 2022