Monday, January 12, 2009

Genetic Determinism

This is a science which has failed the reality test.
Some scientists after understanding the DNA and the gene concluded that an organism is just but the sum total of its genes i.e your genes determine ehat you are, do and even ypur diseases.
But reality proves thet not only does DNA give instrictions, it also gets information from the environment and changes accordingly-fluidity of the genome.
Before Dolly was cloned, they had made Tracy after genetically manipulating her genes so as to produce a certain Amino acid in large quantities but failed to pass the same genes to her offsprings hence the Idea of cloning was born so as to avoid loss of essential genes.
Some genes have been associated with some diseases E.g diabetes,cancer and cystic fibroids to mention but a few.But reality has proven that environment plays a part for disease development.
So genetic determinism is fundamentally wrong.

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