Nature

Good morning everyone, my name is XX. Today I’d like to look at the question of whether do genes determine our behavior and personality. Most people would agree that genes play a role in human growth, your genes will follow your parents’ genes. It is mean that you hair, eyes, skin color and look like you parents. Just like all of us here in this classroom, do you have another idea? I want to take a moment to go around the room and ask your idea. . . . .Yes . . .and how about you? . . .Yes . . . and so you can see, environment is another important reason in people grow. There has a really Chinese story, it is a simper example, in the ancient of China, has a person, he’s name is Yong Zhong, his parents is farmer so he can’t pay cost for learning, but he has gift, when he 5 years old, he write a poetry and many educators come here check the news is really or lie, they give Yong Zhong a topic.YZ can immediately complete and the poetry is perfect. His father think YZ gift is business, take YZ go to anywhere, don’t allow YZ study. 7 years later, he lose his gift, when YZ 20 years old, he just a generally people. This story tells me, not only genes determine our behavior and personality, and has envir. factors. Firstly, I’ll report on the article ‘Nature/Nurture: An Artificial Division’ by Kimberly J. Allen. After that, I’ll offer some of my own ideas about whether not only genes determine our behavior and personality. I will argue that the environment influence genes and finally, I’ll conclude today’s seminar with a discussion using some of the questions I’ve prepared for you here . . . .

OK. so let’s begin with Allen article, he say environment influence genes. Firstly, Allen states that good diet can impact genes. For example, height is combination of people genes and various external factors, we can drink milk provide bonus nutrition, so good diet has given our ‘bonus’ inch or so. Now according to Allen, Environment factors produce different phenotypes from