Is it true that memories of our ancestors are stored in our DNA?

Question

True or not?

Answer 1

ha.. wouldn't that be neat..?  im gonna go with No.

Answer 2

No. DNA only stores genetic information, not memories. Having memories passed on through DNA is the biological equivalent of being able to look at the design of a computer, build another computer of the same design and miraculously have all the same programs and files on its hard drive. It just doesn't work that way. In both cases, the medium that the copying is going through doesn't transmit that sort of information.

This is also ignoring the fact that the cumulative memories of all our ancestors would contain far more information than is present in our DNA.

Answer 3

Genetic memory is crank idea with no evidence.

So no.

Answer 4

Yes. It's called instinct