2. what is the difference between characteristics determined by genes and characteristics determined by the environment?

So you inherit genetic characteristics from your parents like hair color and eye color and skin tone. But environmental characteristics are like your taste in music and your favorite color. Stuff like that.

In the poem "Twelfth Song of the Thunder," the Navajo people consider the voice of thunder and the voice of the grasshopper equally important. The narrator makes reference to the cycles of nature that make the land beautiful: the sound of thunder and the sound of the grasshopper, which are described with the same intensity.