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That's pretty freaky.
I searched that up after reading this post on the fact that most of those examples of recessive human traits we learned in high school bio aren't. Also, as noted, if you use examples that are correct, you might accidentally spill the beans about a family secret.
Actually, that happened (sorta but not really) to my mother in her high school bio class. She innocently and naively asked how she could have brown eyes if that's a dominant trait and her father had grey eyes and her mother had green eyes, and she, as she tells this story, didn't quite get a straight answer out of her teacher. (Not that the reason for this occurred to her at the time, because the idea that she's not biologically related to either of them is pretty silly. But her teacher didn't know that.) At any rate, apparently this must have been weighing on that woman's mind, because a few days later after apparently quite a bit of pre-internet research she approached my mother and gave her this whole song and dance about how her eyes are really hazel and that's totally different. I don't know if it is totally different, but my mom's eyes really are hazel, and inheritance of eye color is a bit more complicated than most people realize - as, indeed, the side links of that site make clear.
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I searched that up after reading this post on the fact that most of those examples of recessive human traits we learned in high school bio aren't. Also, as noted, if you use examples that are correct, you might accidentally spill the beans about a family secret.
Actually, that happened (sorta but not really) to my mother in her high school bio class. She innocently and naively asked how she could have brown eyes if that's a dominant trait and her father had grey eyes and her mother had green eyes, and she, as she tells this story, didn't quite get a straight answer out of her teacher. (Not that the reason for this occurred to her at the time, because the idea that she's not biologically related to either of them is pretty silly. But her teacher didn't know that.) At any rate, apparently this must have been weighing on that woman's mind, because a few days later after apparently quite a bit of pre-internet research she approached my mother and gave her this whole song and dance about how her eyes are really hazel and that's totally different. I don't know if it is totally different, but my mom's eyes really are hazel, and inheritance of eye color is a bit more complicated than most people realize - as, indeed, the side links of that site make clear.
Russians march in memory of murdered Putin critic
Netanyahu flies to Washington to deliver US Congress speech
Afghanistan's Panjshir valley hit by fresh avalanches
A Cure for Colorblindess
Childless adults can use earned income credit
Hong Kong arrests 33 in protest against Chinese shoppers
More mysterious holes are appearing in Siberia — and scientists are freaked out
UN: Iraq violence kills at least 1,100 in February
Estonia's governing Reform Party won a national election overshadowed by security concerns sparked by Russia's role in Ukraine.
How the Philippines saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust
Afghan Policewomen Struggle Against Culture
Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links
Iraq launches offensive to take back Tikrit from ISIL
U.S. suspects accused of sending military supplies to terrorists in Syria, Iraq
North Korea fires missiles as US-S Korea drills begin
Deadly bacteria release sparks concern at Louisiana lab
Young girl's story may lead Idaho to approve marijuana oil
Ukraine military says rebels using truce to regroup
Ukraine unofficially has 272 percent inflation
Bee With No Stripes Discovered in Kenya
World's first lagoon power plants unveiled in UK
Vintage Tokyo subway manner posters
Discover Subway Etiquette's Long, Difficult History
Forest tree seeds arrive at Svalbard's 'Doomsday vault'
Modern Unified Dumpling Theory
