Epigenetics Transformation-You Are Your Grandparents Ate

In the past years many scientist have undergone hours of research to finding what traits were passed down many family generations and the history behind genetics. Gregor Mendel came up with a theory of inheritance, he acted out on experiments that explained how dominant traits were more likely to be passed down than recessive ones. Another theory that came to place was in 1859 Charles Darwin introduced a theory of evolution among animals and plants and which he called it Darwinism. His theory involved of species evolving, which also lead natural selection, the to capability compete and survive. In the novel Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin, he explain that each generation of a certain animal has a better chance of survival as explained in in his novel “ As natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight, successive, favorable variations, it can produce no greator sudden modification; it can act only by very short and slow steps.”These men both discovered that species evolve and mutate but went through different paths to find that data, for instance Darwin studied animals and took note on birds and how their beaks were changing, Mendel did an experiments with different peas and crossing them to see what the outcome would be. Both of these theories have impacted the …show more content…
Peeke, “Epigenetics Transformation- You Are What Your Grandparents Ate”, Dr. Peeke’s talks about how your genetics determine your destiny, also based on what you and born with. If you are born with an obese trait or addicting trait you can dampen it by the way you eat and through your lifestyle. Dr. Peek also brings up if that your grandparents smoked you had a big risk of their children and grandchildren being obese. She brings up Epigenetics transformation research and how it has been helping scientist understand how cells develop and function. This research ties in with Mendel's and Darwin's with ideas of mutation and genes that are passed down through