How does genetics affect growth and development and environmental factors interact in the development of individual traits?
Environmental factors often influence traits independently of genes. Sometimes the environment changes a gene either its DNA sequence or its activity level. Either of these effects can change the proteins that are made from a gene, which in turn affects traits and our environment, more than our heredity, plays the starring role in determining the state of our immune system, the body's primary defense against disease. This is especially true as we age, the study indicates. Heredity is the biological process of transmission of physical characteristics from parents to children through genes. It strongly influences many aspects of the physical appearances of children such as their height, weight, body structure, the color of the eye, the texture of the hair, and even the intelligence.
Genetics which you inherit from your parents not only provides morphology but even anatomy as well. While you combine the characteristics of your parents, the traits that become your own depends on the power of the genes you inherit from parents (Mother or Father). While this is something that remains stable as you grow, there could be external (friends) or your eating habits which either strengthen various organs of your system or weakens. This is in a way abusing your body during your prime youth. Although it is not too late to realize the importance of principal systems - Digestive/Circulatory and Nervous systems of your body, one can try and try changing a few habits that are harmful to continue their health for a little longer.
The environment in which an organism lives can affect many of its inherited traits. Food, temperature, sunlight, and water are examples of environmental factors that can affect an organism's traits. Many characteristics of plants and animals involve both inheritance and the environment. Environmental factors often influence traits independently of genes. Sometimes the environment changes a gene either its DNA sequence or its activity level. Either of these effects can change the proteins that are made from a gene, which in turn affects traits. Environmental factors, as related to genetics, refer to exposures to substances where we live or work behaviors that can increase an individual's risk of disease or stressful situations. Environment brings individual differences in behavior, activities, attitude, and style of life characteristics. Environment does not refer only physical surroundings but also it refers the different types of people, society, their culture, customs, traditions, social heritage, ideas and ideals. Understanding genetic factors and genetic disorders is important in learning more about promoting health and preventing disease. Some genetic changes have been associated with an increased risk of having a child with a birth defect or developmental disability.
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