The Ghost in our Genes
Our genes carry unbelievable information of our past. And it is this genetic information, that affects our present, because the only way forward is to look into the past. This documentary film explains genetic science and it’s impact on our future life.
A gene is the basic unit of heredity in a living organism. The field of genetics predates modern molecular biology, but it is now known that all living things depend on DNA to pass on their traits to offspring.
Genetics is a discipline of biology and the science of heredity and variation in living organisms. The fact that living things inherit traits from their parents has been used since prehistoric times to improve crop plants and animals through selective breeding.
However, the modern science of genetics, which seeks to understand the process of inheritance, only began with the work of Gregor Mendel in the mid-nineteenth century. Although he did not know the physical basis for heredity, Mendel observed that organisms inherit traits in a discrete manner-these basic units of inheritance are now called genes.
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September 30th, 2009 at 01:47
Sorry to disappoint these revolutionaries but Samuel Hahnemann described exactly this in his theory of Miasms and it forms the basis of homeopathy: that the diseases we have today are an imprint of the untreated illnesses of generations going back much further than a couple of generations. I suggest you all read his Organon as he deduced much more than you have yet discovered and told of in this documentary, and he did it in the 18th century.
November 2nd, 2009 at 04:13
Except that homeopathy is a bunch of woo-woo nonsense without any experimental evidence at all.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:34
Wow! Phenomenal documentary!
What will all the kids of Meth addicts and the such be like for generations to come? It is so important to choose a spouse carefully, if you can for your kid’s sake as well as your own.
I’m sorry to hear about the potential dangers of IVF. That’s too bad.
Thanks Vlatko!
November 21st, 2009 at 21:36
This documentary leaves a “doom and gloom” affect. If this theory is true then the opposite could be true. For example, better diets and economic prosperity could lead to more healthy offsprings.
January 5th, 2010 at 08:14
this could make terrorism even more profitable. not only will wars be waged (which is terribly profitable for certain groups)but now drug companies can use horrible propaganda to maintain that a group will have offspring with increased stress response for many generation,thereby ensuring that they can sell their “cure” for years and years. governing agents have been using this stuff for years, using fear to guide the minds. now we have a clue to how this may work at the molecular level.
February 16th, 2010 at 07:21
During my pregnancy, my husband listened to extremely loud music…loud enough to shake the windows for up to 6 hours a day. Our son was born with extra skin around his ears–on both ears…by skin, i mean stubs of protruding skin to protect his ears. Therefore, I am in agreement, that environmental factors can and do affect children in the womb