Summary Of The Film 'The Identical'

One of the topics discussed in class is behavior genetics, which is in Chapter 3: The Nature and Nurture of Behavior. Behavior genetics is the scientific study of the influence of genes and environments on individual differences in traits and behavior. A movie related to this topic is “The Identical”, a 2014 American musical drama film directed by Dustin Marcellino.
The movie tells a compelling story of identical twin brothers, Ryan and Drexel, who were unknowingly separated at birth during the Great Depression. Their parents cannot afford to give both of them any kind of a life beyond desperate poverty, so one is adopted by another family. Despite their very different upbringings, the boys' shared passion for music causes their lives to unknowingly
As the brothers’ destinies tragically collide, Ryan discovers that Drexel is his identical twin, which leads him to question everything he’s ever believed about family and his own identity.
The movie relates to the topic, behavior genetics, since it shows how identical twins separated at birth and raised in completely different environment share a string of similarities. One particular topic under behavior genetics is twin studies. In class, it was discussed how behavior geneticists turn to the study of twins to understand how behavioral traits are inherited. Two kinds of twins, monozygotic twins and dizygotic twins are involved in the twin studies. The twins in the movie are monozygotic twins, and they share one hundred percent of their DNA. In the twin studies, behavior geneticists found out that even when