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Describe the influences of genetic, environmental and socio – economic factors on the development of the individual
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Describe the influences of genetic, environmental and socio - economic factors on the development of the individual P5 - There are many factors that can affect an individual's life, and in this report I will cover the influences of genetic, environmental and socio-economic factors on the development of an individual. Genetic influences Steve Jones (1993) explains that genetics is a language, "a set of inherited instructions passed from generation to generation'. Jones argues that genes are like the words in a language. The way genes are arranged can be seen as the rules for language much like grammar. Genetics also have a literature, 'the thousands of instructions needed to make a human being'. Genes contain the information needed to make living organisms. This information is held in the DNA. Each nucleus in each cell of a living person contains this genetic material. To be alive, you will have had to have a code...
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