Conscience, hereditary or learned?

It is learned. People that teach you about good,bad,your self and god are the ones that help instill what is right and how you should feel when you do wrong.

Believe it or not, I had a doctor that has doctors as parents and he admitted stealing as if it were nothing wrong. He said his dad took him to steal something when he was in school for his room! It is just wrong, these people have no need yet, do it because they feel entitled! He also commits insurance fraud, which I did not trun him in for , but he is not my doctor anymore! I have never stolen any thing ever! Different people have different ethics. When someone gives me the wrong change, I return it, and the bank has mistakenly given me an extra thousand and I called to inform them of an error and they told me the teller balanced! The next day they called and said she was short and what was the problem, I told them that she had given me the extra money and I brought it back, they said they did not know how she did it but was glad i called, yet I do right and still have bad luck all the time! I wonder when my luck will change< I always think if you do wrong then something bad will happen , I guess luck is what ever not because you are good or bad, life is what it is, you just need to deal wiht it on lifes terms or it will destroy you, if you think doing wrong is ok I think it will catch up sooner or later!

Both I think. It goes along with nature vrs nurture.

Most researchers studying the nature-nurture relationship are calling it a 50-50 ratio, half of the behavior to genetics and half to environmental influence. Example is if you score 20 points higher than the average person. 10 points, or 50%, can be contributed to genetics whereas the other 10 points can be contributed to your environment. Generally the conclusion is that the environment cannot create dispositions for which no genetic basis exists. Elman states, “There is virtually no interesting aspect of development that is strictly ‘genetic’, at least in the sense that is exclusively a product of information contained within genes.”

Elman, J. (1996). Rethinking Innateness: A connectional Perspective on Developement. Cambridge: MIT Press.

I would be interested in reading an answer to this question, one that has some sort of evidence or proof!

Briefly, we do not know.

Conscience is close in experience to intuition, in which we sort of sense things, including right and wrong, like "hunches".

It seems to be dependent on knowledge. For example if I grow up in an area and culture when stealing is accepted, my conscience would not condemn my stealing.

The right brain seems involved with intuition and conscience.

At least part of it, then, is learned.

Is part of it genetic? Maybe. Perhaps it is spiritual too? Your question implies only two possibilities, right in line with contemporary science culture which sees physical reality as all there is.

Consider this: we do not know what is mind as opposed to what is brain. And where does the conviction that I am a person (my internal individual identity) come from? Is it an illusion or real? My experience tells me it's real. Is it learned? Biologically inbred?

I think it's a bit of both

my sister is a "clone" to my Father's Mother even though the two of them never met

But then I think education can influence and change a lot, too, if you give someone a chance

Everyone has a conscience. Weather or not you listen it is your gift of free will from God.