Genetic material is “essentially whakapapa”, the glue that binds everything together in te ao Māori, Associate Professor Phillip Wilcox (Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Rongomaiwahine), a quantitative geneticist and bioethicist at Otago University, told RNZ….. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/544179/gene-technology-changes-what-you-need-to-know