GringoireGirl
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May 25, 2019 4:26 PM
GringoireGirl
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ZeparTheSinful
haha yeah. punnett squares are soooo wacky and nerdy
abacab87
I was going to say something, but then I lost interest.
Threns
Jesus, you can see which commenters skimmed the surface level shit about genetics in school and just blew past all the details
Vergenbuurg
...this nerd analyzation inspired a retcon in Batman Beyond...
VoidJerk
High school kid learns about basic genetics for five minutes in biology class, immediately goes home and posts for fake tumblr points.
MidoryMoon
Artist is Kate Beaton.
evilspock
Yes! From http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=213
BeTheHammer
ruvan
Not dominant doesnt mean untransferable
aSentientChurro69
Robert Baratheon: black of hair
Grizabellakat007
Every time
Kallistonia
None of these people commenting have an understanding of how dominant/recessive works
TedTheMan
Adoptions happen.
TedTheMan
(And red headed mailmen)
1girl1bkpk
Looks like Edgar Allen Poe?
Sordiy
Gotta love getting genes from your great great grandfather... especially when your the only one out of 8...
HoneNathan
As I recall this was the reason for Justice League Unlimited making a new Finale for Batman Beyond.
SAGreenXYZ
Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford did not produce Adam Driver. No way...
mattihase
Meanwhile in Rescue Bots...
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
This was a gag in Everybody Loves Raymond. Blonde kids no blonde relatives. Ray or someone would mention it every now and again.
kingbudo101
The little girl in Lucifer. Mom: White, Blonde, Blue eyes. Dad: White, Brown hair, Blue eyes. Little girl: Hispanic
MerToo
hahaha putting the lel in allele
kingbudo101
The reason was the father was originally played by a Hispanic guy in the pilot but was changed. They kept the same child actor.
Hyero
Sometimes I look at the kids in Hallmark movies and wonder what kind of savants they are because they aren't drunk gremlins.
Zer0Degrees
Infidelity.
LZorro
I also do this with child actors playing younger versions of adult actors.
gimpycat
The kid who played little Buffy in the tv show had no features in common at all, it was very frustrating.
jamsplodge
Yes, yes I do
RacecarIsRacecarBackwards
The bigger question here is why the fuck were none of Cersei's and Jaime's children retarded?!
TapiocaMartini
Especially when it comes to mutt babies. It always kills me when a black and white couple get together on TV and the kid is Jay Z jr.
TheVenerableJudgeTaintyMcPoo
“mutt babies”
TheVenerableJudgeTaintyMcPoo
Which ones?
mmmobster
That guy looks like Edgar Allen Poe
Icantbeli3vethisisstillavailable
Yes, Sansa looks nothing like the rest of the starks.
Taxicat
Given how many redheads we see amongst the Wildlings and how both Wildlings and Northmen are descended from the same ancestors, 1/
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it’s highly likely there’s at least one redhead in the Stark line. Sansa having red hair like her mother makes perfect sense. 2/
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One of the things that I preferred with the show compared to the books is that the Stark kids in the show demonstrate 3/
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a much more realistic proportion of phenotypes compared to the books. The books have 5/6 showing the Tully phenotype; even if 4/
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Ned Stark’s own mother had red hair, it would be VERY unlikely for that many kids in a row to ALL have red hair. But the show has 5/
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Basically the plot that kicked off Game of Thrones. To think, all it would take to throw it off would be ONE of 1/
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King Robert’s kids with Cersei having something other than blonde hair. Didn’t even have to be dark! If there were any blonds 2/
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in the Baratheon line (there probably are), then even with an epistatic dominant gene there would be a decent chance of at 3/
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least one out of three kids being blonde like their mother. It’s the fact that ALL THREE have the exact same shade of blonde 4/
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hair and blue/green eyes that exposes everything. One or two being blonde could still have been possible, but all three? 5/
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Who’s got a calculator handy that can estimate those odds, starting with an autosomal inheritance that gives each kid 6/
gimpycat
Meanwhile Shireen's over there with her light brown hair and nobody bats an eye.
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Her mother has light brown hair, and the pics of her paternal grandmother show light brown hair as well. Even with an epistatic 1/
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dominant gene (a dominant gene that completely suppresses any other phenotype), there would still be a 25% chance of her not 2/
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getting the dominant Baratheon phenotype. Like I said: it’s the having THREE non-Baratheon-phenotype kids in a row that’s the 3/
ohthechestpain
That youngest girl on 7th Heaven.
waitwasthatreal
No, because genetics is a lot more complicated than that
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authorityonit
It is definitely possible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child.
MyNameIsDende
Nope-nope https://cdn2.momjunction.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/babyeyecolor.jpg
authorityonit
Yep-yep https://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mytheyecolor.html
authorityonit
this line is brutal "Many people who know nothing else about genetics think that two blue-eyed parents cannot have a brown-eyed child."
GringoireGirl
I'm talking as a human
TedTheMan
Sure you are...
Samiinthehood
That does not mean anything should be accepted
waitwasthatreal
What?
wtforero
My father is brown, my wife is brown, darker skin tones are genetically dominant. My daughter and I are both white.
ginniper
Green eyed pale blonde lady+brown eyed tan black haired fellow = Hazel eyed tan brunette daughter & red haired grey eyed pale son
ginniper
Genes are weird!
bsmithwins
Some parts of genetics are, but other things are dirt simple. Two blond, blue eyed parents ain’t having any brown eyed and haired children.
frenchcook
The seed is strong?
ginniper
Incorrect, they can!
MyNameIsDende
Nope https://cdn2.momjunction.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/babyeyecolor.jpg
ginniper
Yes.mom junction isn't a great resource for facts https://genetics.thetech.org/how-blue-eyed-parents-can-have-brown-eyed-children
DoktorWyvern
Execpt, they can.
MyNameIsDende
Nope-nope https://cdn2.momjunction.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/babyeyecolor.jpg
DoktorWyvern
Lol "mom junction" with no explanation or reasoning provided. Or even context, really. "Baby eye color" could refer to at birth.
ginniper
Yes yes https://genetics.thetech.org/how-blue-eyed-parents-can-have-brown-eyed-children
MyNameIsDende
No, it's really basic biology. The picture is correct, no matter the source, the source wasn't the point, I just tried to draw it for you..
DoktorWyvern
thankyou.gif
Khenny92
I get irrationally bothered when two blue eyed parents on tv have a brown eyed child. LIES!
Caffynated
Or when two intelligent parents have really stupid children despite IQ being ~80% genetic. Or the opposite stupid parent/genius children.
Caffynated
People don't find it unbelievable that Phil(lawyer) and Viv(professor) Banks had Hillary (potato)? https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2014105
gimpycat
Eye color is actually determined by several levels of gene expression, so it's much more complicated than you were prob originally taught.
authorityonit
Why? It is definitely possible.
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That’s actually possible. Not as likely as a blue-eyed parent and a brown or hazel-eyed parent, but not as uncommon as people think. 1/
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There are well over a dozen genes involved in determining eye color, which means a lot of possible variations to be passed on. 2/
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Even if each parents got a combo that led to having low enough melanin and low enough pheomelanin for blue eyes to result, 2/
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that doesn’t guarantee that every sperm/egg they pass on will carry the exact same proportion of each possible phenotype, 3/
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or that they’ll combine with the other parent’s sperm/egg in exactly the same way. That being said, two blue-eyed people have a 4/
DoktorWyvern
Then you should have listened in school, because that absolutely can and does happen.
Khenny92
I did listen in school. I was always told that two blue eyed parents cannot have a brown eyed child due to brown being a dominant trait.
Khenny92
Well damn. I guess I was taught lies in HS bio. Forgive me. I have a BA in History.
pygmypie
It doesn't have to be dominant. If both parents pass a recessive gene, the child can display it. And some genes can hide for generations.
cousteau
You may or may not show a dominant or recessIve trait one or both your parents show. Or even a recessive one none of them do.
cousteau
The only no-no is a dominant tray none of your parents show.
kansas555
My ex is dirty blonde/grey-blue eyes, I am dark brown/hazel green eyes. Our daughter is blonde/teal eyes, son is red head/brown eyes.
kansas555
My kids look genetically impossible to be mine.
Rubyredslippers33
LIKE ME!!!!
TheManInTheWall
Also, codominance and epistasis also can have an effect
thequeenofsheba
Haha yep! I’m blonde/blue eyed. Hubby is African American. 1st son looks just like dad. Second son strawberry blonde with blue eyes.
CheddarBae
Yep. That explains why my auntie was the only red head w/ blue eyes in our family. Everyone else is a brunette w/ brown eyes.
thequeenofsheba
It’s probably important to note his family was once owned by James Madison
heretocomfort11
theres a play where whoopi and a white guy have an Asian son.
PotatOSLament
It’s Cinderella. The stepsisters are a pale redhead and a black woman.
JackTheFartRipper
I thought everyone knew this
WholesomePyromaniac
My mom and dad are both brown eyed. They have three blue eyed children.
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Gets even more fun: there are genes that can actively suppress others (epistatic), genes that can’t be visible without other 1/
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genes being active (“splashed” mice are a good example), genes that cause variations on the “main” genes (like the fact that 2/
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red hair is caused by a combination of 6 different variations of MC1R, which is why you can get everything from 3/
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bright unmistakable red to “sort tinted red” to “was a bright flaming ginger as a kid but not anymore”), etc. 4/
CorydorasAfavorplease
My mom had strawberry blonde hair, with the odd red facial hair, and bore sons with red tinted beards and as I age, I'm getting auburn in my
MrChurch
Like my wife having a back child despite us both being white. That's how it works, right guys?
pygmypie
CorydorasAfavorplease
cousteau
I got some bad news for you: she may be half black.
Mojocactus
Yup! Husband and I are both dark hair and eyes but we have 2 blue eyed blonde children. Genes are so interesting
TheBorzoi
My family have some weird hair genes. Me and my siblings all started blonde and as we've got older, it's become more brown. None of us dye.
DickDastardly404
There are certain things that just don’t occur though, like I’m pretty sure two blue eyed people cannot have a child with brown eyes, 1/2
Smead
Yes they absolutely can. https://genetics.thetech.org/how-blue-eyed-parents-can-have-brown-eyed-children
DickDastardly404
oh fair enough. that's why i said 'pretty' sure
DickDastardly404
Because brown eyes are dominant, and if they carried the gene for brown eyes it would have been expressed. 2/2
BuzzLikeEar
For example my father is an enginieer and i do balloons animals
PickleRiiiiiiiiiiiiick
Translation: hes very disappointed in me.
tempestfoxthree
True, the more amusing one is when a kid has a dominant allele that neither of the 'parents' have (brown eyed child, blue eyed 'parents')
NeynasGhost
Stop talking about my dad like this!
SomeDetroitGuy
Eye color isn't a simple, single gene though
Canaqueen3000
Wet or dry earwax is, though!
RealScienceMan
The thing about that is the genetics is much more complicated than that, it's a series of if-then statements not just dominate/recessive.
Colopty
Depends on what you're talking about. For eye color it's pretty much as simple as dominant/recessive.
Corona688
Some are, some aren't.
Marayla
My dad has black hair, my mom has brown, both have brown eyes. Grandmother has red hair, grandfather on other side had blue eyes...
Marayla
One sister has red hair and blue eyes, one brother has red hair and brown eyes. Both of them and one other sis have very pale skin.
Marayla
We also have some Portuguese way back in the line somewhere, my oldest brother has very tan skin, black hair, and brown eyes. It's funny.
IHateCarpets
Hey! Both of my parents have brown eyes and i have blue eyes :D
MoooCow
Is that why I'm black and my parents are white?
Colopty
What color is your mailman?
Raenon
Both of my parents are blue eyed, I've got hazel, like my grandmothers on both sides. Complicated genes.
gracefalls
My mom is white with hazel eyes and my dad is black American with dark brown eyes, me and my siblings all have hazel or green eyes even ligh
Kallistonia
You missed the point
gracefalls
ter than my mom's eyes. Both are 100% our parents.
WaterDragonHaku
"100%"
jamsplodge
Your father probably carries one dominant brown allele and a recessive one that complements your mother's hazel
QuackQuackAttack
So your dad must have some light eyed ancestors. Pretty common with black folks in America to be heavily mixed.
lncorrectGrammerNazi
Anyone have any idea as to why?
tangybreath
Right, thats not the same thing. If both parents are phenotypically recessive, a child CANNOT have a dominant. But parents showing 1
tangybreath
dominant traits can have a phenotypically recessive child. So in your case, both your mom and dad have a recessive green gene. 2
TheBestRussian
Yes so both my parents have blue eyes. Mine were brown until they settled into yellow. I also have detached lobule unlike them.
SupermassiveZebra
You're adopted. Sorry
doesntmatter
Yellow? Please post a picture of your eyes!
TheBestRussian
Um... green. Not yellow.
xVVitch
*hazel
tangybreath
Hmmm... your eyes were brown and turned green?
TheBestRussian
They lightened through adolescence from a darker hazel to a lighter hazel/green and I have no explanations for that. But certainly not blue.
TheBestRussian
And can’t twist my tongue, unlike them. So... yeah I dunno.
SomeDetroitGuy
That's not really a genetically acquired trait. You can train it.
TheBestRussian
Really? My kid was doing it sporadically since she was like 6 months.