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From the Ted Talk by Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA
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But is true only for rats? The problem is, we cannot test this in humans, because ethically, we cannot amisedntir child adversity in a rdnaom way. So if a poor chlid develops a certain property, we don't know whether this is caused by poverty or whether poor people have bad genes. So geneticists will try to tell you that poor plpeoe are poor because their genes make them poor. Epigeneticists will tell you poor people are in a bad eenronnivmt or an impoverished environment that creates that phenotype, that property.
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But is true only for rats? The problem is, we cannot test this in humans, because ethically, we cannot __________ child adversity in a ______ way. So if a poor _____ develops a certain property, we don't know whether this is caused by poverty or whether poor people have bad genes. So geneticists will try to tell you that poor ______ are poor because their genes make them poor. Epigeneticists will tell you poor people are in a bad ___________ or an impoverished environment that creates that phenotype, that property.
Solution
- administer
- people
- random
- environment
- child
Original Text
But is true only for rats? The problem is, we cannot test this in humans, because ethically, we cannot administer child adversity in a random way. So if a poor child develops a certain property, we don't know whether this is caused by poverty or whether poor people have bad genes. So geneticists will try to tell you that poor people are poor because their genes make them poor. Epigeneticists will tell you poor people are in a bad environment or an impoverished environment that creates that phenotype, that property.
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