Nature vs. Nurture Debate

What do you think now about the role of genetics in determining your character? Has the information you have heard changed your mind or confirmed your beliefs? Use specific examples from the research you have conducted to justify your perspective.

I think that genetics do play a role in determining a person’s character in many different ways. First of all people do not say that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” for no reason. Although is it not all the time, but children sometimes do act very similar to their parents. I cannot deny the fact that nurture plays a very big part of a person’s character but so does nature. The case of Brenda/Bruce Reimer proved that although at birth Bruce was born a male, due to medical mistakes his parents decided to switch his gender to female. As Brenda was growing up as a girl she was a tomboy and would have boy characteristics at times. When Brenda hit puberty at age 13 she had suicidal thoughts because she was unhappy as a girl. So in the end even though Brenda was raised as a girl in a girl environment she still felt like a boy inside which is what her initial gender was. This case proves that DNA does play a major role on the traits of a person. Science Daily has done a research on twins and how their DNA affects their traits, and they have found that identical twins were twice as likely to share traits than twins that are not identical. In the end I believe that both nature and nurture play a big part in shaping a person, but sometimes no matter how you work on the nurture part, bits of nature will still come out.

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  1. Very good layout and I liked that you included actual research from Science Daily. I also agree with what you say and see that you have a good understanding of this topic.

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