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Each member’s physical appearance, fashion preferences,
their sense of humor and phobias can all be different. For
those factors that were not environmentally molded, you
have to take into account the genetic make-up of each
individual at the time of BIRTH as an added factor of
diversity.
If you take out the emotion of bringing a newborn child
into the world at the time of BIRTH, all of us are simply a
genetic consequence of our parents. At the moment of
conception, we each receive a set of twenty-three
chromosomes from our mother and father as seen in
Figure 1 - 84. Within these chromosomes are genes, and
within the genes are strips of coded DNA.
Until recently, science assumed that once you received
your DNA, it was locked inside every cell in your body and
would remain unaltered, unaffected by your life choices
and experiences. The food you ate or the stress you
endure during your life would have no direct affect on
your genes or DNA.
These same rules apply to your parents, your grandparents
and your great-grand-parents and as far back as
you can imagine. Their genes were simply passed on to
the next generation and the experiences they accumulated
in their lifetimes (food they ate, stresses they endured,
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