Question

What influences me more? Is it hereditary or environment or both?

Answer 1

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Behavioral genetics' study of personality has made it clear that genes are important. In fact, a number of personality traits have been identified as having a genetic basis. For example, family studies have led to the discovery that generalized anti-social behavior is passed down through genetic inheritance.

All traits depend both on genetic and environmental factors. Heredity and environment interact to produce their effects. This means that the way genes act depends on the environment in which they act. In the same way, the effects of environment depend on the genes with which they work.

For example, people vary in height. Although height is highly heritable , environmental variables can have a large impact. For example, Japanese-Americans are on the average taller and heavier than their second cousins who grew up in Japan, reflecting the effect of environmental variables, especially dietary differences.

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an excellent example of environmental modification of a genetically controlled effect. PKU is a form of mental retardation that results from toxic (~damaging) effects of abnormal breakdown of the essential amino acid, phenylalanine, which is found in all protein. The enzyme that breaks down phenylalanine is defective, so it accumulates and breaks down abnormally. So in PKU, a single gene can dramatically affect behavior: it is clearly a genetically influenced process.

But the effect of that defective gene expression depends on the environment in which it occurs. When this abnormal metabolism of phenylalanine was discovered, an effective treatment became available: a diet low in phenylalanine. The abnormal gene is still there, but because little phenylalanine is present in the diet, little toxic effects result. This defective gene was no longer expressed in mental retardation, because the environment was different: phenylalanine was greatly reduced in thefood the child with the defective gene ate.

Answer 2

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firstly, heriditary hings influence you most.as the genetic material from parents passes to progeny which resemble the characters of organism.

and then your environment.lets say you are brought up in a cool and calm family and then you will grow to be a cool with good personality.in other case if you are brought up in some wierd place where everyone are dangerous and cruel you would also become the same near future.

so, both influence your attitude behaviour and character.

hope it helps