21 Surprising things you may have inherited from your parents

Whether you wake up early or burn the midnight oil

“Early to bed, early to rise” sounds like common sense, but not if your genes are working against you. A 2016 study by the genetics company 23andMe found that people may be genetically predisposed to be morning people or night owls. They discovered that there are 15 areas of the human genome linked to being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in the morning, and having even one of them increases the likelihood of being a morning person by up to 25 percent.