Hereditary Vs Hereditary Traits Research Paper

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Having good and bad heredity traits are a part of life that we cannot ignore but our environments can change anything that has been passed down to us and had to see growing up. Even though some people are raised in good families they still can take a bad turn in life. Sometimes the only thing it takes is a different crowd and their behavior around us could change everything that has been passed down to us. From my experience I feel like a person’s environment is more effective than their hereditary traits. Simply because something can be hereditary in your whole family like abuse and alcoholism, and because you see it so much you end up picking up those habits also.
Abuse was once a debatable topic on being hereditary but now the evidence
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Which means someone who over uses alcohol and usually becomes a drunk eventually from too much alcohol. Alcoholism is inherited especially if we are around a bunch of alcoholics. Alcoholism can only effect you if you are in the same area or house of the person that is an alcoholic to begin with. Like if you are not around the person that is an alcoholic then you might not inherit the trait but it can indeed be inherited. Unfortunately, not being around an alcoholic is not always an option some of our parents are alcoholics and we have no choice to but to live with them and end up becoming alcoholics ourselves due to many emotional factors, but we can also hang around people who don’t do those things to help us wing away from it and not become our parents. Brothers and sisters and spouses of people that are alcoholics need to especially be careful because they have a higher chance of becoming alcoholics or having alcoholism. A lot of people with no family history of alcohol are alcoholics they just became so because of the wrong environments that involve social drinking. So once again I say that environments can be stronger than hereditary traits if someone that never was around an alcoholic a day in their life can still become one because of the wrong

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