Is GAY and DNA are related?
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Not surprising that the "gay problem" is almost negligible in asian countries, since homosexuality is punishable by death in most of these.  You rarely get true statistics from the closet. As for the African community, you need to go back to anthropology class.  There are a lot of African tribes where homosexuality is acutally encouraged, or openly accepted as part of the social climate.  In college we studied several of these communities - in one in particular, the right of passage for a boy to become a hunter or warrior is for him to drink the semen of the strongest male member of the tribe.  You think he drinks it from a champagne glass?   It is obviously a little bit of both - genetics and circumstance. Sexuality is as individual as fingerprints - no two people are truly identical in their proclivities.  Whose to say one is right and one is wrong? We're just different, as nature intends us to be.
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Its a little of both. Genetics and envionment. Some studies have shown there is an actual homosexual gene that is passed on only through the mother (X chromosome). Even though you have the gene, doesn't make you homosexual. You need to be put in the correct enviroment. And there are epigenetic (if you don't know this word. look it up on www.wikipedia.com)factors also.
911131
People are born gay. It is scientific fact that there are biological differences between homosexual and heterosexual people.
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Homosexuality is not a choice, decided on a spcific day. Genetics is related to being homosexual.\nA double-blind study of male brains post-autopsy showed a difference in the hypothalamus in gay males.\n\nLike the previous answer-only questions involved is, if you are  going to be yourself and accept it.
192260
Well, MY OPINION (as there is no scientific proof) would be that it is genetic.\n\nFace it, in a society where homosexuals are RIDICULED, would you choose to be gay?  \n\nAlso, do you CHOOSE to be heterosexual?  Do you CHOOSE to brown eyed? Left handed? 6ft tall?\n\nOh, and if they can prove that alcoholism is genetic (there is proof of this), why can't homosexuality be genetic?
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Yes.  I have heard that there is a `gay` gene that determines a persons sexuality.  This is hereditary from ones mothers side.  \n\nThere has been a lot of scientific research into these genes and conclusive proof that it is hereditary.\n\nHowever, I accept that some people choose a gay lifestyle themselves even if they are `born` straight.
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yes. DNA is also found in mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotes'.
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You'll never find such a study, as the nature of subject is "stealthy"   Large percentages of lgbt live closeted to some extent.  \n\nMost studies of gays also do not get funding from traditional sources because the subject matter makes those funding nervous.  Hence the study of biological influences on homosexuality moves at snail pace because disproving that it is a choice or something acquired from the environment upsets too many apple carts, even in more progressive countries.\n\nOooooh that was a long, no answer, huh?
648502
That's a really poor way of saying that apes and humans both have DNA which is 97% identical in the sequencing of certain alleles... It does indicate that we share a common ancestory, but the 3% difference is HUGE.
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No! This is impossible!  DNA isn't compatible.
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It's a good question, and I'm glad you asked it. Technically, I agree with your other answerer (bear)- I don't think it should matter, because we are who we are, whatever the cause may be.\n\nNo one really knows what causes sexual orientation. Scientists used to think that there was some sort of "gay gene", which may or may not be inheritable. Now they are thinking it may have more to do with the male or female hormones that people are exposed to before they are born. There seem to be some differences in people's brains that could be caused by that. \n\nI tend to think there is probably more than one thing going into causing sexual preference... that's just me. Other than knowing that I was born bisexual and didn't choose it somehow, I don't really think about it much. But I like that you put heterosexuality in your question as well as being gay and lesbian. Many people ask what causes homosexuality, which prompts me to ask them the question, what causes heterosexuality? But you seem to know what whatever causes one causes the other, which is good. The important thing is to keep in mind that both of them are equally normal, whatever they may be caused by.
200880
There is little/no evidence of homosexuality having a genetic basis. I'd advise you to check into NARTH. They're a secular research organization that does research into the roots of homosexuality. The lead members of the organization are former  leaders of prominent research groups and publishers of prominent journals (ex. American Psychological Association).\n\nTheir general consensus is that homosexuality results from social conditioning and childhood experiences. Check out the website below.
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There are a number of scientific studies that do just that. I've linked to Wikipedia which sums up some of them, but the overall conclusion is that sexual orientation is determined in utero and is due to a number of factors, not just genetics.\n\nThe identical twin studies, especially those where one twin was straight and one gay, indicated that there's more going on than genetics.\n\nSimon Levay's study of brain structure indicated that homosexuals have a larger hypothalamus than heterosexuals. There have been other studies showing that gay men think like straight women as the brain activity was observed.\n\nThere's a finger-length study, indicating that women with a certain middle finger length are more likely to be gay.\n\nThere are birth order studies, where straight male children were born first and a gay male child later, suggesting that there may be hormonal influence on sexual orientation.\n\nBut whatever you think, know that it is not chosen. No one would choose to be ostracized, ridiculed, and made to feel a lesser citizen.
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Do you attracted to people of the same sex?  If so, you are probably gay.
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Thymine pairs with Guanine.\nCytosine pairs with Adenine.\n\nThus, the complementary strand would be GGATCGA.
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Gay means happy.  Yes.\n\nGay also means homosexual--this just depends on your point of view.
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As for as i know they havent been able to tack it down with DNA evedence quite yet, but they know that it changes the brain chemestry.... But from things ive read and from gay ppl i know alot can come from their childhood, one lesbian i know was talked down alot by her father, she was called fat and ugly and it was a mess, she wasnt, but she totally blames her dad for making her want to cling more to women, and i know a gay guy that says his babysitter molested him when he was younger and ever sence then hes never really wanted a women sexually, he was 10 or so when it happened. But at anyrate, i cant say that ALL have had something like that happen, but i know for a fact that it can determine it in some cases... awww well its not like anyones really going to be able to answer this lol i think for every gay person walking they have a differnt reason on why they think they are that way, who knows maybe science can figure it out, i also know that back in the 50's and 60's it was considered a mental problem, even though public views have changed, i think they might have been closer then the DNA theory, that something scared them or changed them or how ever you want to put it that made them not want the opposite sex, but i dont think it was a disablity, well other then it kinda makes it hard to have kids lol but who knows, im not tring to offend anyone at all i have gay friends and i love them dearly... but its just my 2 cents