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Tagged with inheritance or genetics
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Has anyone done a GCTA of leg length? [closed]
There is extensive genomic research on height, but nobody seems to have done a gcta of leg length.
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Genetic disease elimination: Possible?
This is a question having to do with my generation ship story but more specifically, genetics, and even more specifically, genetic disease.
Here are the conditions as far as people with or without ...
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Why isn't all genetics work published on GitHub?
Update: When hackernews is ruthlessly critical of a new software project, the implicit assumption is that software projects are dime-at-dozen, attention of HN users is worth millions of dollars, hence ...
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What is the probability for an offspring to inherit schizophrenia? [closed]
If an European male (i.e. white) is diagnosed with schizophrenia, but an European female (also white) 2-3 years younger than the male is healthy, what is the probability that their first child will:
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Why isn't the human zygote considered a human life how is a living anatomically modern human defined biologically? [closed]
It has 46 chromosomes by default when healthy(Differences almost always are pathological) and has almost every biological functions, processes a Newborn or and Adult person has.
It even invades ...
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metaphors for explaining the role of DNA in the cell [closed]
Various metaphors are used to explain the central role of DNA in a cell to laypersons. These include blueprint, recipe, catalogue, instruction manual etc. I even heard someone describing DNA as a '...
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Could DNA replication fail in the far future? [closed]
Assuming that all environmental conditions on Earth remain the same in distant future, the tendency of nature to increase entropy would cause the chemistry and the mechanism of DNA replication to ...
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What genes are the muscles, nerves, bones and blood? [closed]
I have a question about genes. The question is that bones, muscles, nerves and blood are each made on which genes. Father or mother genes? Does the person take any of the characteristics of the mother ...
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Can 2 people give rise to billions? Adam and Eve 2.0 [closed]
With with the advancement of GMOs the idea of giving rise to humans from 2 people is possible making questions like this invalid?
How many people are required to maintain genetic diversity?
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Alleles and Ploidy [closed]
I was recently studying inheritance and variation and came across a sentence:
A diploid organism can show only two alleles
How is this possible?
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Can genetic engineering be performed without a laboratory setting? [closed]
I'm becoming more interested in genetic engineering as I learn more about it, and it's becoming more and more apparent that there's very few resources on genetic engineering at home. A similar ...
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are clones siblings to the original?
i have a question about cloning, if a person had his/her DNA sample like hair or blood used to make a clone wouldn't that clone be that same person's brother or sister since they share the same ...
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Is it possible to separate either father or mother chromosomes from a sperm? [closed]
If we were to use a flow cytometry, can it separate either the father or mother chromosomes from a sperm?
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Ugly people and genome [closed]
Why haven't ugly and dumb people been eliminated be evolution ? Why do they still exist despite Charles Darwin theory of natural selection.
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Genetics and Heredogram - Proving the teacher is wrong
I want serious help here. I'm in first year of medical school and I jut had my second test in Genetics. One question of the test gave us a heredogram and asked us what was the most probable type of ...
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Searching for a vaccine vs searching for poor genes in the covid-19 pandemic
I have only basic knowledge about biology. I have some propositions (may be wrong) and a question about the covid-19 pandemic.
In 1918, the world had a similar pandemic, the Spanish Flu. Millions of ...
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