AmidFuror

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[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Should have used atwerdna, then.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and sometimes you have to throw in a real curve ball!

By the way, as head of quality at a saltworks in Europe, I should point out that there are as many shapes and sizes to processed salt as there are subtleties to their trace mineral concentrations. So "a grain of salt" isn't a well defined quantity.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just wanted to add to the useless comments saying they don't know and can't be bothered.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

Your link didn't work. Need to see babes.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

This guy does the math before mating with sis.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Chloroplasts getting the shaft again, I see. Underrated organelles.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What about saying quee without the hard 'r'?

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 18 points 7 months ago

Plants don't appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.

*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I like what the original commenter did. Pointed to the resource and pasted the relevant answer. Now we can learn two things.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

That was the point. It can be like voluntarily giving up rights by joining the armed services.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

If you selectively inbreed for long enough, the deleterious alleles are weeded out by selection. This is true for strains of laboratory mice, but not for any royal families that I know about.

[–] AmidFuror@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Recessive alleles like the O blood type are preserved when paired with a dominant allele. So parents that are AO or BO can have children that are OO. The recessive allele's effects are suppressed, but it doesn't disappear. It keeps popping back up in future generations. That was one of Mendel's key discoveries.

The frequency of alleles circulating in a population is affected by drift and selection. Assuming no or very weak selection against type O, it's a matter of chance each generation if there are fewer or more children with type O alleles. The O allele could drift to 100% (also called being fixed) or to 0% by chance. This takes a very long time when the effective population is large but is faster for small, isolated populations. There are some variant alleles that are circulating in humans which have been there since before our split with chimps and gorillas.

The largely mathematical field that studies this is called population genetics.

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