Don't Hate The Trait

Genes decide what people look like on the inside and outside, and people cannot change their appearance if they do not like their genes.

Children always look like a combination of their parents because they get genes from both their mother and father.

The environment and genes can work together to form and change one's traits.

Genes mainly determine what a person's personality is like.

“Genes give you characteristics that can make you look the same as other people or very different from them.” (Paragraph 3)

“You are around people who smoke and you get cancer, or you are not around people who smoke and you don’t get cancer.” (Paragraph 6)

“Your genes tell your cells to grow tall, but you don’t eat healthy food and you grow up to be 5 feet 8 inches instead of 6 feet tall.” (Paragraph 7)

“The parts of you that you share with your parents were either passed down in their genes to you, or come from the environment where you both live.” (Paragraph 8)

It compares parents to architects and builders creating traits.

It shows why variation among traits is so important.

It introduces the idea of genes as instructions for creating an organism.

It shows that buildings cannot be made without instructions.