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Developmental Psychology
Ch 9 Lifespan Development
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the branch of psychology that studies how people change over the lifespan
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developmental psychology
the branch of psychology that studies how people change over the lifespan
zygote
the single cell formed at conception from the union of the egg cell and sperm cell
chromosome
a long, thread-like structure composed of twisted parallel strands of DNA; found in the cell nucleus
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
the double-stranded molecule that encodes genetic instructions; the chemical basis of heredity
gene
a unit of DNA on a chromosome that encodes instructions for making a particular protein molecule