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Irene Gallego Romero discusses whether a conflict is essential and whether it is necessary

to consider anything as nature against nurture in her TED talks episode titled "The battle between
nature and nurture." Hearing about various DNA-related experiences that are true to life and that
Irene Romero herself has had is interesting. One thing I've discovered is that as we age, both
humans and animals lose the ability to digest lactose. I learned that lactose intolerance affects the
majority of individuals in the world. According to Irene Romero, the fact that some people can still
digest lactose as they age is due to a DNA variant called cytosine that she possesses compared to
the majority of people. Additionally, while researching lactose intolerance, I came across a general
mutation that causes a person's DNA to change from cytosine to thymine, allowing adults to digest
milk and other dairy products. Romero emphasized a number of issues in her discussion, including
the things about our genes that we may have heard and are curious about, the query of whether
DNA is so potent or the Nature side, and the life experiences that belong to Nurture. However, for
me, Nature and nurture are significant because they both play a crucial role in determining which
genetic variables affect behavior in relation to the social environment in which people live, work, and
play, even though some people disagree about whether it is a genetic inheritance or environmental
factors. Chimpanzees, considered to be the closest living relative of humans, and people have 99%
of the same DNA. Irene Romero made a statement that I agree with and respect since it has been
thoroughly investigated and convincingly demonstrated over an extended period of time. The
chimpanzee and human genomes are remarkably similar and encode relatively comparable proteins,
according to the Chimpanzee Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. In the first issue of the journal
Nature, one of these researches was published. Nearly 99% of the DNA in the two genomes that
was directly compared is similar. Even though chimpanzees and humans have the same amount of
DNA, they are not genetically similar. I believe that this difference of 1% is due to how people act
and how they look. In addition, onions have more cells than people do, and I concur that this is
accurate. Romero also disputes the idea that scientists have found a gene for criminality or any
other quality, and I have to agree with him because no one is born with the desire to be a criminal.
Same to what Irene Romero said, there are always a number of genes that influence a person's risk
of developing cancer, and it is similar in the case of crime in that genes alone do not make people
criminals.

The influence of learning and other factors from one's surroundings are specifically referred
to as nurture. Romero claimed that experiences may easily beat genes, and she is right. My family
doesn't have any members that can play an instrument like a piano, but I was able to learn how to
play one by watching YouTube videos. I agree that while most components of learning and
experience have a definite genetic foundation, intrinsic skills can be strengthened by environmental
adaptation and learning. The definition of nature, however, is typically given as the traits, behaviors,
and provisions that are determined by genes or hormones. Is DNA really so potent in this case?
Romero emphasized that there comes a point where there is nothing, we can do to stop it, similar to
what she said about weight: why suffer and go without food when your DNA is what is causing your
body to expand to a sizeable extent? However, not all diseases and features behave in that way, as
Irene Romero noted, as some genetic diseases and disorders might be passed down through the
family while others are impacted by alterations or mutations in a gene or set of genes that already
exist.

To sum up, I think that nature and nurture work together rather than nature vs nurture.
Humans have genes that show them how to act in various circumstances, but which are flexible
enough to allow for lifelong adaptation. We may learn things like manners, habits, and skills because
we have a genetic base that can be developed through experiences and learnings .

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