我们用短语 'it is in someone's genes' 来形容某人与其父母的性格或职业选择很相似。

例句

I love motor racing. The love of speed is in my genes. My father was an ambulance driver.

Ann is very ambitious. She can't help it, it's in her genes. Her parents arrived in this country penniless and now are big industrialists.

请注意

单词 'genealogy' 的意思是家谱学、宗谱学。

I became interested in genealogy after my mother told me that her grandfather was a pirate.