Heredity & Environment

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Understand how genes inherit from their parents to descendants and how they determine their individual characteristics

Understand how environmental factors inside and outside the uterus influence your child's future health

Understanding genetic diseases, counseling and screening health information before pregnancy or during pregnancy

There is a long controversy over the importance of genetics and the environment. Genetic supporters say the environment can not turn dogs into goats. On the other hand, environmentalists think that only seeds are not important for plant development, but there are environments such as sunlight, feces and water.

Genetic and environmental influence on individual development plays a very important role. Personal personality is the product of genetics and the environment. In some cases, heredity may overwhelm development, but in other cases the environment may have a significant impact on growth and development. Because of this difference, individuals' physique, personality and other personality characteristics are different. Balance and harmonious development of individuals requires a very good balance between genetics and the environment.

What will happen to you? Is it the gene you were born or is the environment you developed? This long discussion on genetics and the environment continues to spread and researchers have discovered that genetics and the environment also contribute to socialization. The socialization process can be better understood when studying genetic and environmental functions themselves. Socialization begins in the uterus and ends in the grave. Through interpersonal relationships, individuals learn attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate to a particular culture. We learn from the most important people, family, friends, and teachers in our lives. But we also learned from other people on the street, TV program people ... more