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| 09 Jul 2012 02:10 PM |
So, lately I've been thinking(Love it!), and if I understand well, everyone is who (s)he is because of her/his parents. The child gets some of the DNA from his parents. The child is a mix between the parents.
But, lets say, a woman with a short nose and a men with a long nose get a baby. The child, will have a nose between the lenght of the man and the woman. Lets just say, that the child has a normal-zised nose.
But, when the men(with the long nose), must be a mix between someone who has a longer nose then him and someone who has a shorter, the one with a longer must again be a child of omeone who has a longer nose then him and someone who has a shorter nose, right?
Now, how could this work? If I am right, wouldn't the noses keep getting longer and longer, the farther you get in time?
My bets solution is hat I just misundertanded how this works, but I still wonder...
Anyoen knows what I've most done wrong?
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Jamocha
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:13 PM |
| DNA doesn't quite work like that. There are still variations within one person's DNA. It's a good thought, though. |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:13 PM |
you misunderstand how it works
"But, when the men(with the long nose), must be a mix between someone who has a longer nose then him and someone who has a shorter"
there's your problem
it's not like the imaginary "long nose" and "short nose" genes clash and make a "medium nose" gene
it's a mixture of dominant genes determining characteristics
for example, let's say the "short nose" gene is dominant
it wins over the "long nose" gene and the baby is born with a short nose |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:17 PM |
@musclooman
Yes, buts still, would that still mean his nose would be smaller then the nose from the one with the dominant genes?
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:19 PM |
noses are weird
i like the eye example
so a man and a woman have a baby
the man has brown eyes and the woman has blue eyes
the blue eye gene is dominant, so the baby is born with blue eyes
as for the specific shade and such, that's random |
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Dannyb0y1
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:20 PM |
The baby gets genes from it's mother or father. If the women had a short nose and the man had a long nose, the baby would have a long nose or a short nose. This happens with hair colour, eye colour and sometimes height. |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:20 PM |
@muscle
I knew how that worked for eyes, but still... thanks, you was very helpful :).
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skyarex
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:24 PM |
I am pretty sure that DNA doesn't work like that. From my knowledge, it is the gene (either from mother or father) which is dominant which the child picks up. Eg, if a child has a mother with blue eyes and a father with brown eyes, the child will most likely get brown eyes, due to the fact the brown eye gene is more dominant than the blue eye gene.
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:25 PM |
@sky
nice example
looks a lot like mine |
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skyarex
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:25 PM |
Crap someone already explained it. Sorry. Might work for everything though.
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:25 PM |
"the fact the brown eye gene is more dominant than the blue eye gene."
blue is dominant |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:26 PM |
| The father's genes are always dominant. I have my mother's hair and eyes. It is completely based on the parents. But yes, one gene is more domaninant then the other. |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:26 PM |
Thanks everyone, I think I undertsand it now :).
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:27 PM |
@mil
Brown eyes are dominant. Look it up.
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:27 PM |
i learned some of this stuff a while ago
but each parent has 2 genes
now, dominant genes like brown eyes will overrule a nondominant gene, like blue eyes
but if each parent has one blue eye gene and one brown eye gene
there's a chance that the kid will get two blue eye genes and get blue eyes |
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Dannyb0y1
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:27 PM |
| Consult the internet for more details. |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:28 PM |
brown actually is dominant
but anyway
for a non dominant gene to win out both gene donations have to be of that nondominant gene |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:28 PM |
@danny No, gender has nothing to do with it, only the genes.
Also, deoxyribonucleic acid. c:
My corneas burn with passion. |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:33 PM |
| Oops, I was suppose to say the father's gene are NOT always dominant. |
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| 09 Jul 2012 02:36 PM |
| The nose thing depends on both genes and DNA, imo. |
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