Remember the movie Trading Places? A snobbish investor and a wily con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. Louis Winthrop III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthrop’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers—Mortimer and Randolph—make a bet that switching the lifestyle of the two will make Louis turn to a life of crime and enable Billy Ray to become a law abiding citizen. The fun begins when Louis and Billy Ray team-up to get rich…and get even.

Mortimer and Randolph debate the age-old question of nature versus nurture—what’s more important in a person’s life, genetic endowment, or environmental conditioning? They bet a dollar that they know the answer to a question that has puzzled the greatest minds since money was first coined. That dollar bet costs the Duke brothers their entire fortune. They learn that the nature or nurture question cannot be answered with a simple “yes” or “no.” Environment conditions and genetic endowments are equally important in human development

We are what we are because of nature (in computer lingo, our hard drive) and nurture (our software). Our genetic inheritance interacts with environmental conditions to make us who we are.

The human genome is analogous to a 46-volume encyclopedia. Each chromosome represents a volume; a gene on the chromosome represents a page. Traditionally when searching for gene mutation that causes a disease, molecular geneticists look for a missing word or sentence or a misspelled word. For chromosome disorders they are on the lookout for bunches of pages missing, because the whole genome or portions of the genome are altered.          

Our development has a sensitive dependence on initial conditions. The genes we inherit are important. How our genes interact with the environment is equally important.

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