Some people believe that a person's intelligence is inherited from the parents while others believe that their environment is the main factor. Discuss these views. Which factor do you think is mostly responsible for intelligence.

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The subject of where a person's intelligence is inherited from is highly debatable. As some people think is inherited from one's parents, others
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believe it's gotten from the environment. In
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essay, both views are going to be discussed, afterwards, I give my opinion in the conclusion. On the one hand, supporters think that
brainpower
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is inherited from parents, which can be said that intelligent procreators are likely to bring forth very clever children. As
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could be seen in the X chromosome of a gene which could be a clever one and a gene inheriting
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chromosome from their immediate forebears.
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, Albert Einstein, a world known intelligent scientist had an offspring who was equally very clever.
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, during fetal life where a mother reads to the baby in
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- in the womb, sense has just been picked up right from the womb.
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, supporters of IQ being acquired from the surroundings claimed that good nutrition and proper education can help a child become brilliant. In good nutrition, a child who's exclusively breastfed in infancy and gradually grows, eating a balanced diet can play a major role in strengthening the brain
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acquiring knowledge.
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, children who are schooled and determined to learn, grow to become intellects since they are involved or being taught a wide range of subjects ranging from problem solving to politics with a multidisciplinary approach helps them gain intelligence. In conclusion, both schools of thoughts,
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, knowledge gained from parents and from the environment are both good. In my opinion, the environment plays a major role in the inheritance of intelligence.

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