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1 Describe a skill or ability in which you excel. How might your ability be influenced by your genes and your context?Identify passive gene–environment correlation that may contribute to your ability. How has your environment influenced your ability?Provide an example of an evocative gene–environment correlation. How have you evoked responses from your context that influenced your ability?Explain how your ability might reflect an active gene–environment correlation.Which of these types of gene–environment correlations do you think best accounts for your ability? Why?

2 Considering the research on epigenetics, what can you do to protect your epigenome? What kinds of behavioral and contextual factors might influence your epigenome?