How Does Living With Our Genes Affect Our Life

Are humans aware of the important role of more than one hundred thousands of genes that we have? I would say not all of us have. This question is not often ask unless we form part of a science club or have careers that are associated with biology, as a college student and future professional woman I do think it is important to ask this type of questions and to know the answer. People always tend to ignore the scientific side of the how our personality, behavior, temperament and experience seeking, among others things are affected by our genes. According to Dear Hamer and Peter Copeland the authors of Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think, genes affect all aspects our life. The authors give us a more clear understanding on how human genetics is linked with our daily life and how we have the ability to manipulate and use our genetics for our own benefits in the future.
Genetics shows that personality, which determine our emotional, social and physical characteristics are inherited since birth and how the differences in personality it is determine based on the differences in genes. If you ask yourself who you are, the answer would be that we are part of the result of our experiences in life and our genes. When we are being conceived, we are form by our parent’s genes, but that does not mean that we have their same personality. Our personality is based on character and temperament and these aspect are able to be modify when we are growing up. Temperament it is just the people point of view of the world, we do have specific traits are with us since the day we are born, such as our hair color, skin color, body type and height. People are not able to change those traits because they are inherited, even though it is true that we can change or modify others traits such as our knowledge, ideas, skills and memories because they are acquired traits, meaning that they are not passed on genetically. The aspect character in our personality it is more flexible to modify because we can learn from the environment that is around us and have the ability to change how we deal with ourselves and how we are at any time in our life. Just like who we are is determined by our genes, some certain diseases like obesity is affected are affected by them. It have been proof scientifically that humans have obese gene and that some people have more difficulties than other to control their weight. Genes can cause obesity in some type of disorder, such as Prader- Willi syndrome and along with behavior it is the reason on why many people are overweight. Just like genes play a role in our health, they play a role in our gender, the biological differences between men and women. Every person is born sexless and we are turn into one of the two gender by our chromosomes that contain thousands of genes, they can also determine our sexual development. There is not doubt that one of the most important role of genes is in our behavior, since there is evidence that genes control behavior. Genes do not only determine how we look, but also how we feel and experience life. The nature and nurture controversy it is because people are most likely willing to accept a genetic effect on behavior more than the inhered traits .In fact the studies on identical twins conducted by many scientist shows …show more content…
The development of science would allow humans in the future to use genes for diagnosis and medical treatment. In the future we will have the opportunity to prevent and checked diseases based on our genes and we would be able to have therapy sections for mental illness and other brain diseases that would be directly treated based on the research done about the genetics of the illness. Definitely the control of our genetics would allow human to select their future breeding. People always have been selective about their relationships and how they want to look like, but in the future humans could be able to control how they would like their future baby to look