Blogpost #4: The Aggressive Gene

Did you ever feel like you want to kick someone's butt or say like your blood feels like boiling that you want to kill someone? Well each part our body is compose of tiny particle called cells and each cells contains our genes. There is a gene called The Warrior gene or The MAO-A Gene. This genes can make us very aggressive and do some stuff like violence.

The Warrior Gene

Our body is compose of cells and genes. There is a certain gene that can affect our behavior, for example is the MAO-A gene where this gene can make us very aggresive to do some stuff.

Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) is linked to our behavior of aggression. According to Rose McDermott' report, "We report an experiment, synthesizing work in psychology and behavioral economics, which demonstrates that aggression occurs with greater intensity and frequency as provocation is experimentally manipulated upwards, especially among low activity MAOA (MAOA-L) subjects." 

The Killer Gene


While I also researching about this kind of gene, I also encounter the killer genes or the murder gene. What about this kind of gene? Well, killer gene sometime refer to your relatives. For example, your identical father is a murderer who killed a hundred of people. It said that the blood flowing into your vein is a murderer's blood where you can also killed many people like your father. In the article called "This Cold-Blooded Murderer Could Help Prove There's A 'Killer Gene'" by Erin Fuchs.

In his article, there is a example of a man who is a murderer. His name is Jeffrey Landrigan who was adopted by a geologist mother. His adoptive family seems to be like a educated and straight-laced. From here, Jeffrey's life change. When Landrigan got 20 years old, he got drunk and stabbed a childhood friend to death. He was sent to the prison for 20 years but he managed to escape.

He again sent to the prison when he was commit a murder killing a gay worker. This time he got a death penalty. While he was in the death row one of his inmates told him that he looks exactly like a man named Darrel Hill who also commited murder. 

He have a shocking discovery that the man named Darrel Hill was his identical father also he discover that his grandfather was also a murderer. Landrigan said, "I've never met my father. But he was definitely, even without being there, a big influence in my life,"

While I was wondering about Jeffrey's story, I realize that the action of your father is also reflect to your action but we are the one who will decide whether on what we will do. Like in the picture in the right. As a authentic people, we should do who you are because, our actions reflect to who really we are or what is out traits or characteristics.