Genetics?
There are two word which are similar, but have a totally different meaning when you get down to the nitty-gritty of it. The two words: Reformation and Transformation. Reformation is the action of improving, but it involves altering or amending something to make it more presentable or suitable. Transformation involves change, but it is at the core - it is the change in the very nature of the object. Reformation involves "cleaning up" something - superficial at best. Transformation included the exchange of on thing for another. Any time we focus on "cleaning up our act", we are engaging in "reformational" action - any time we allow God to focus on "changing our nature" we are giving him access to do his tranformational work within us. For though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, yet your iniquity and guilt are still [upon you; you are] spotted, dirty, and stained before Me, says the Lord. (Jeremiah 2:22 AMP) ...