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What a "Twinsidence"!
In the 1980s, Thomas Bouchard was curious about nature and nurture. So, he found a bunch of identical twins that had been adopted by different families. These twins had identical "natures" (the same genes), but had different "nurtures" (different life experiences). At the twin reunions, there were some incredible coincidences. Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated as infants. When they met at age 39, both were the same height and weight, had dogs named Troy, and had been married twice to women with the same first names. Some scientists see flaws in Bouchard's twin research since there have been studies of twins that have grown up in completely different homes, in different parts of the country, that have nothing in common except for their genes. But one thing everyone agrees on is that both nature and nurture play important roles.
Nature: the traits that you inherit from your parents like eye color and hair color
Nurture: the things around you that shape your personality, like where you grow up, who your teachers are, and the places you've been
Significance: nature and nurture together shape who you are and what you look like
Most of what makes you YOU is due to:
nature (your genes)
nurture (upbringing, environment)
both nature and nurture
Correct!
Everything from your personality to your intelligence to your dancing ability is due to both your nature and your nurture.