Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
NU 318 - FINAL EXAM Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
What is behavioral genetics?
✓ The study of the ways in which genes influence behavior
Do genes directly control behavior?
✓ NO - gene variants influence behavior, particularly in combination with
environment
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
✓ collection of symptoms that do not quite meet the definition of pervasive
developmental disorder (PDD)
✓
✓ -wide variation in phenotype
Examples of Pervasive Developmental Disorders
✓ -Asperger Disorder
✓ -Rett Disorder
What is Autism related to genetics?
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✓ -Most are clearly the result of variations in several genes working together,
probably with environment triggers
✓ -Complex
✓ -Multifactorial
✓ -Exposure to chemical during pregnancy or environmental triggers
What is substance abuse disorder described as?
✓ Out-of-control drug use that is not consistent with adaptation and continues in
spite of serious adverse consequences
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
✓ -Problem with social interaction and academic performance
✓
✓ -runs in families
✓ -GWAS supports that ADHD is complex disorder w/ environmental contributions
Subtypes of ADHD
✓ 1. Inattentive
✓ 2. Hyperactive/Impulsive
✓ 3. Combined
Schizophrenia
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✓ -Severe chronic psychiatric disorder
✓ -Psychosis with hallucinations and delusions
✓ -Appears in adolescence or early adulthood
✓
✓ -VERY complex (multifactorial)
✓ -Wide variable phenotype
What chromosome is associated with both depression and bipolar disorder?
✓ Region on Chromosome 3
What gene is associated with neurodevelopment (Schizophrenia)
✓ NOTCH4
What genes encode neurotransmitters for alcohol dependence?
✓ -Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)
✓
✓ -Acetylcholine
What genes are a part of the endogenous opioid system that encode for drug
dependence?
✓ OPRM1 codes for the u-opioid receptor
Top Mark !!!
NU 318 - FINAL EXAM Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
What is behavioral genetics?
✓ The study of the ways in which genes influence behavior
Do genes directly control behavior?
✓ NO - gene variants influence behavior, particularly in combination with
environment
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
✓ collection of symptoms that do not quite meet the definition of pervasive
developmental disorder (PDD)
✓
✓ -wide variation in phenotype
Examples of Pervasive Developmental Disorders
✓ -Asperger Disorder
✓ -Rett Disorder
What is Autism related to genetics?
Top Mark !!!
, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ -Most are clearly the result of variations in several genes working together,
probably with environment triggers
✓ -Complex
✓ -Multifactorial
✓ -Exposure to chemical during pregnancy or environmental triggers
What is substance abuse disorder described as?
✓ Out-of-control drug use that is not consistent with adaptation and continues in
spite of serious adverse consequences
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
✓ -Problem with social interaction and academic performance
✓
✓ -runs in families
✓ -GWAS supports that ADHD is complex disorder w/ environmental contributions
Subtypes of ADHD
✓ 1. Inattentive
✓ 2. Hyperactive/Impulsive
✓ 3. Combined
Schizophrenia
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, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
✓ -Severe chronic psychiatric disorder
✓ -Psychosis with hallucinations and delusions
✓ -Appears in adolescence or early adulthood
✓
✓ -VERY complex (multifactorial)
✓ -Wide variable phenotype
What chromosome is associated with both depression and bipolar disorder?
✓ Region on Chromosome 3
What gene is associated with neurodevelopment (Schizophrenia)
✓ NOTCH4
What genes encode neurotransmitters for alcohol dependence?
✓ -Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)
✓
✓ -Acetylcholine
What genes are a part of the endogenous opioid system that encode for drug
dependence?
✓ OPRM1 codes for the u-opioid receptor
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