Sunday, April 19, 2009

Different and Similar

I was talking with a friend of mine and I couldn’t come up with any ideas for my blog. He said to read his blog and write on some topics that he has. Well, I did.
Everybody has similarities and everybody their differences. Some people have a unique sense of humor or a sophisticated brain. In this world everybody is the same but different; let me explain. Everybody’s features come from genes which our passed down from generation to generation. They get swapped and different ones are dominant and others are recessive, or the ones that are “hiding.” Everybody has the same composition of their genes, certain chemicals, certain bonds to bind things together. Everything composed of DNA: Deoxyribonucleic acid, but people seem so different. People different language, different hair color, different height, taste, skin color, on and on and on. Even though everybody has the same gene makeup and yet they are so different, it weird to think about.
People have different IQ scores. How do they get the smart genes? It isn’t fair. How did Einstein get to be the genius of all geniuses? In biology class we learned about the DNA and genes, we learned that some of the genes people have can be either inherited or learned. For example they did a study on identical twins, ones that were separated before they even born and had them grow up in two completely different cities. After they had grown up they would put them together and see what they had in common. Since identical twins have identical genes that you would expect for them to be the same. Some of the genes that they had classified as inherited were almost the same, but as they grew up they obtained some learned genes, since they had been raised on two different cities, in two completely different environments. I was talking with someone last week and we had both taken the ACT the previous Saturday. We were comparing our scores and he did like 7 points better than me. How come he got the smart genes on the ACT and I got the average score genes. I guess it was the luck of the draw.

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