AP Psychology Unit 3ABC

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Across
  1. 1. a random error in gene replication that leads to a change
  2. 2. complete instructions for making an organism
  3. 4. depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of sugar
  4. 6. a brief electircal charge that travels down an axon
  5. 8. twins that are developed from separate fertilized eggs
  6. 13. interplay that occurs when the effect of one factor depends on another
  7. 15. condition of surgery that isolates the brain's two hemispheres
  8. 16. magnetic fields and radio waves used to create computer generated images of soft tissue for brain anatomy
  9. 17. the basic building blocks of the nervous system
  10. 18. biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes
Down
  1. 1. insulated fatty layer of axons that is used to speed up neural impluses
  2. 3. conductive fiber of a neuron
  3. 5. traits that lead to increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed onto succeeding generation
  4. 7. formation of new neurons
  5. 9. impairment of language caused by damage to Broca's or Wernicke's area
  6. 10. bundled axons that form neural cables with muscles
  7. 11. receivers of neurons
  8. 12. invented by Franze Gall, theory that claimed bumps on the skull could reveal our mental abilities
  9. 14. ____ callosum. the large band of neural fibers connecting the left and right hemispheres