| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Ingentization |
| Date: | Thu, 28 May 1998 11:43:36 +0100 |
> I'll put dollars to doughnuts that the kid goblinizes. Depends mostly on
> the majority of genes, but if its a male goblinization for sure, due to
> the father's genes most likely being dominant. But if its a girl i give
> it a 50/50 shot.
Erm... I might not have paid too much attention in Biology class, but I do
know 50% of your genes comes from your father, and the other 50% from
your mother. You don't get more or less from one parent depending on you
gender, you just get one chromosome different, and therefore it's _always_
the father who "decides" what gender the child will be.
Furthermore, assuming the troll genes are dominant, it's still very possible
for a troll to have the genes that make a human, and thus for the child to
inherit them. If then the mother also passes on human genes to the child,
it'll be human regardless of whether it's a boy or a girl.
Sort of like the blue eye/brown eye thing: brown is dominant, yet two brown-
eyed parents can have a blue-eyed child, if they each have one brown-eye
and one blue-eye gene.
That said, let me state this is my interpretation based on what I remember
from a class I didn't much care for about 5 years ago, so I may be way off :)
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