Developmental Psychology

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Developmental Psychology
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Q.1. A new genetic disorder called "HARID disease is found to involve heterozygous
alleles, is recessive, and is characterized by incomplete dominance. Discuss the
implications of this descriptions of this description concerning the inheritance of
this disorder.
The heterozygous allele is referred to the genetical organization, when two different alleles
are posited on the same locus of the chromosome. Having heterozygous alleles have an
advantage on the people affected by the same. The heterozygous genotype is a recessive
genotype in nature and has a higher fitness as compared to the homozygous genotype. People
affected with heterozygous alleles are characterized with overdominance of due to the single
locus. In this particular case, the heterozygote dominance lies outside of the phenotypical
range and this is responsible for the over dominance. This particular form of genetical
ordering among the humans are usually known as diploid organisms, as they have two
different alleles, and each of the allele comes from each parent, and this particular formation
results into genetic traits (Ng et al., 2016). In this case one allele is dominated by the other,
but in case of the recessive alleles, which is presented in this particular case, the alleles
express themselves, for example, having blue eyes. In such cases the individual will be
regarded as a career pf the allele, which means that the off springs of the individual are likely
to have the similar kinds of traits. Having heterozygous alleles can also result into autosomal
disorders, which are more commonly known as the birth defects.
Q.2. Discuss the relationship between genotype and phenotype. Provide an example of
each to support your analysis.
The genotype and the phenotype, though sound quite similar, but are very different in their
orientation. The genotype can be defined as the set of genes which causes a particular trait
among the people. On the other hand, phenotype is defined as the physical traits that are

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resulted because of the ordering in the genotype. Therefore, genotype refers to the particular
sequencing of the genes in a particular organism. It also refers to the information tat are
contained between two alleles, which then causes certain physical traits. The formation of the
genotype can only be understood, and determined under proper biological tests. Examples of
genotype can be, the genes responsible the color of the eye or the sound of someone’s voice
or the height of a person.
The phenotype refers to the expressions of the genes, or the physical and the behavioral
outcomes that are caused out of the sequencing of the genes or the genotype (Gjuvsland,
2013). Therefore, the examples, are the color of the eye or the height of the person, caused
because of the genotype.
Q.3. As an elementary school teacher, you are assigned a group of gifted
students. You are asked to develop a plan that meets their learning needs.
Describe three practices you would include in your daily activities to meet the
needs of gifted students.
To reach to the gifted children and to account the requirements of the special children, the
teachers generally follow a need based educational system, that will identify the need areas
and therefore, will specially focus on those areas. Therefore, to acquire the need based
educational system the following three strategies ae most efficient to meet the learning
requirements for these children.
 Using music and voice inflection, that is using music or varied voice inflections, to
make them understand a particular task or to make them learn about certain concepts.
Music has been proved to be one of the best ways to reach to the special kids, and to
gain their attention, and make them learn (Jennings, Caldwell, & Lerner, 2013).