Genetic inheritance can be described as siblings receiving some bits of traits from their parents. Example of such traits may be physical: height, hair color, and eye color; emotional: sadness, moodiness, anger and crankiness and behavioral; a good example being cunningness. This paper, however, focuses on emotional, genetic inheritance; this is how a child can be compared to their parents through emotional features. It is true that children are not an exact copy of their parents, but there are features such as the eye color to the length of their fingers that may just be the same as that of their parents. This happens because each parent contributes at least 23 chromosomes according to (Lander, 2009) a child is basically mostly a combination of both parents genes that come together to form one. This ends up forming a completely different being. However, the dominance or recessiveness of each parent’s genes determines whose traits would be more pronounced in the child. In this case, after a collective research and detailed analysis, it was clear that I am selfless just like my father and mother. This paper will, therefore, be able to explain how the genes combined and led to the successful accusation of the particular traits.
It is already established the way one looks depends on the dominance or recessiveness of a gene. According to (Hearne, 2007), Alleles are copies that make up a gene, every sexually reproducing being have two copies which combine to produce a protein. The protein produced thus depends on how dominant or recessive the gene is. Thus the sibling produced mostly depends on the protein variation. This, therefore, led to the conclusion that my father’s gene was dominant thus it led to me acquiring some of his traits. After an interview with the family members, they explained that I was not the only one with the same characteristics. They explained that my father to have inherited the trait from his father and his father also had the same traits.
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According to (Rimon, 2007), a child must inherit two copies of the parent’s allele from each of the parents that’s if they both have recessive emotional traits for the trait to appear. It is, therefore, explained that for a child to have blue eyes, he must have got one blue-eyed gene from each parent. This explains the selflessness I acquired from both the parents. Gregor Mendel, an Australian monk who discovered the basic hereditary principle, was among the first person to explain how the traits are passed on from one generation to another using his breeding experiments with plants he came up with three principles of inheritance. He concluded that one could not draw from the external resemblance of a person its internal traits. A quantitative survey was conducted just to get the number of children who have physical traits from their parents. It was mind-blowing to find out that most of the children did not look like any of their parents but those who did had most of the traits from the both of the parents. Only a few of the children got their genetic inheritance from a single parent. This study confirms the notion that mostly dominant genes are mostly pronounced on a sibling. When a dominant gene is combined with a recessive gene, the dominant gene always stands out. However, it is rather obvious that when two recessive genes are combined a recessive gene comes about and when the vice versa happens, i.e., when two dominant genes are combined the dominant gene is born.
It is, therefore, true if I conclude and say that my traits are purely as a result of genetic inheritance with no contribution from the interaction of the environment and the genes. However it should be noted that as much as the traits of the child depends on the parents, the child’s genome can also be influenced by the past generations before his father. This helps to explain why my grandfather was selfless. Thus, a parent may not have the same traits as the child, but mostly the traits are assumed to have been passed down through the generations. This makes it important for a person not to make judgments of paternity using the physical look of the child. In reference to Gregor Mendel's experiment, a D.N.A test would be the best way to decide the parentage of the child.
In conclusion, I am a diploid; this means I received one set of genes from my mother and another from my father. This explains the fact that I have some of my mother’s feature and some of my dad’s. The combination of these two genes creates a genotype which is also known as the D.N.A. The D.N.A simply gives one unique trait that can be used to describe him or her. However one ends up showing same traits of one parent if only the parent had a dominant allele that masked the expression of the recessive gene (allele). Thus genes play a great part in defining a person’s traits.
References
Hearne, C. M., Ghosh, S., & Todd, J. A. (2007). Microsatellites for linkage analysis of genetic traits. Trends in Genetics , 8 (8), 288-294.
Lander, E. S., & Schork, N. J. (2009). Genetic dissection of complex traits. Science-New York Then Washington- , 2037-2037.
Rimoin, D. L., Connor, J. M., Pyeritz, R. E., & Korf, B. R. (2007). Emery and Rimoin's principles and practice of medical genetics . Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.
