DNA Questions
I thought this article was worth drawing your attention to. BBC's Horizon documentary tackled this interesting subject. "Biology stands on the brink of a shift in the understanding of inheritance. The discovery of epigenetics – hidden influences upon the genes – could affect every aspect of our lives.I have the this Horizon documentary if anyone wants it.
At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea – that genes have a 'memory'. That the lives of your grandparents – the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw – can directly affect you, decades later, despite your never experiencing these things yourself. And that what you do in your lifetime could in turn affect your grandchildren."
posted by Andy Michael at 2:09 PM
1 Comments:
I'll give you 3...and 2 more if you need them.
I think it's certainly interesting to think about the consequences of our actions when you consider the fact that our DNA is passed on.
If I do something harmful to my body today - ie. take a weird and wonderful cocktail of street drugs, my future children might be effected as a result.
Alec, on the other hand, is now passed the point of physically inheriting any traits or complications from me. He's safe biologically from anything I do to my own body at this point.
But, his future sister's biological information is still undecided, depending on whether or not I eat any dodgy kebabs from Dave the Kebab's shop in South East London this Christmas - according to this documentary's contention.
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