Learning from the Fossil Record

Grade 8 Science

Name: max Hawkins

Date: 3-16-11

Understanding the Power of Genes Video Assignment

1.  Choose ONE of the questions below that interest you.

  1. Why are scientists interested in twins who were separated at birth?
  2. How does cloning differ from natural reproduction?

c.  How do genes influence people’s personalities?

2.  Watch the video and take notes that will help you answer the question you chose.

·  Exposure to the environment affects your personality

·  There is no gene that tells you to do stuff

·  Genes are all a little bit different that makes the personalities different

·  Genes don’t shape behavior

3.  Answer the question you chose in RASE format. Use details from the video to support your answer.

HOW DOES GENES INFLUENCE PEOPLE”S PERSONALITITES? Genes influence people’s personalities by the environment that surrounds the person. Genes don’t shape your behaviors and actions, all the time; there are different genes may control your brain. Yet genes are all a little bit different from what makes different personalities. Genes can make a persons personalities a bit different, because there physical appearance; physical appearance of someone always may alter how they feel and who they are. Genes are traits that are in your DNA and you inherit your traits from your parents physically. These traits do affect your personality, because they relate to your parents’ personalities… there are similarities and differences. For example, if you were adopted from parents that were crazy and daredevils into a strict and nervous family your personality changes. It kind of depends on how you are brought up as a child. You still have those genes for daredevils, and you have those thoughts but your environment changes your perspective of life. When your parents mate you get their traits and that means your personality depends on them, but traits are picked randomly so sometimes It is possible you might be like other relatives…

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THIS IS DUE THURSDAY, 3/17/11.