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Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)
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What I reactionary lot you all are, if I want to make YB feel welcome by offering him a massage in the bath than I damn well will
So Chewie got a promotion today and Mrs Chewie is away for the weekend - where are are invites to the strip billiard party at Chewie's this weekend?
If chewy has a bath and hot water i can be there ina bout an hour and a half.0 -
and sometimes wrong.
My parents both have (or should that be had?) brown eyes, supposedly dominant, yet neither me or my only sibling do.
eye colour is polygenic (ie there are multiple genes involved). Even if there is only one gene, the gene has 2 alleles, one dominant and one recessive. Each event has an independent probability of 1/4 for the eye colour to be the recessive one.
Environmental effects will also affect epigenetic markers but that's another whole story
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eye colour is polygenic (ie there are multiple genes involved). Even if there is only one gene, the gene has 2 alleles, one dominant and one recessive. Each event has an independent probability of 1/4 for the eye colour to be the recessive one.
Environmental effects will also affect epigenetic markers but that's another whole story
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You should really choose the crotters for me.0 -
eye colour is polygenic (ie there are multiple genes involved). Even if there is only one gene, the gene has 2 alleles, one dominant and one recessive. Each event has an independent probability of 1/4 for the eye colour to be the recessive one.
Environmental effects will also affect epigenetic markers but that's another whole story
</end geek mode>
Or SCs mum may have had a 'friend' - I am one of five (from same parents) all with different hair colours...I think....0 -
eye colour is polygenic (ie there are multiple genes involved). Even if there is only one gene, the gene has 2 alleles, one dominant and one recessive. Each event has an independent probability of 1/4 for the eye colour to be the recessive one.
Environmental effects will also affect epigenetic markers but that's another whole story
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Weather's wild out there .... did a dash to the shops to get some instant nukable food in budget ... which is now nuking.... but the weather's wild, wild, wild with wind and rain.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »Yeah, I was about to point out this basic and obvious stuff.
One of the other problems with eqine colour genetics is people still cannot agree on phenetype namings. American namings win out, but they do not cover well things like rare Rhum highland pony colourings that well.
The colours we are looking at are mostly dilutes, with horses.0 -
Well done Chewie!:beer:and sometimes wrong.
My parents both have (or should that be had?) brown eyes, supposedly dominant, yet neither me or my only sibling do.
From an older thread about eyes changing colour:That'll include me then!
I gather there's a gene which controls whether eyes are dark (ie brown) or pale (blue/green). It produces the enzyme tyrosinase which makes the brown pigment melanion in the iris. If it doesn't you see the blue-black pigment in the choroid at the back of the eye which gives the illusion the iris is blue.
A different gene produces a yellow substance in the iris which makes pale eyes look green as the blue reflected light blends with yellow.
All eyes start as blue as the melanin in brown eyes needs a light-catalysed step to form properly.
As some anti-cancer drugs remove your fingerprints I wonder how foolproof biometric passport control is?
Plus you could change your eye colour if you take medicine like Xalatan, or have an accident like David Bowie (who had one eye change its colour).:)There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Or SCs mum may have had a 'friend'
Fairly certain that's not true.MissKool wrote:eye colour is polygenic (ie there are multiple genes involved). Even if there is only one gene, the gene has 2 alleles, one dominant and one recessive. Each event has an independent probability of 1/4 for the eye colour to be the recessive one.
Environmental effects will also affect epigenetic markers but that's another whole story
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1/4 that is is recessive in one parent x the same in the other = 1/16
(1/16)^2 that it happens with both kids = 1/256
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