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Roger looks quite different from his older brother but shares so many characteristics with his father that most people comment on the strong physical resemblance. In other ways, however, Roger is more like his highly sociable mother. His older brother Ricky also shares similarities with each of his parents. Ricky resembles his mother and her brothers in his physical appearance, but he shares his father’s quiet personality. Most of us learn early in life, and take it for granted, that children tend to resemble their parents. But to understand just how parents transmit their inborn characteristics and tendencies to their children, we must consider the human body at a molecular level.