wieson

joined 8 months ago
[–] wieson@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago

Behold my children:

Saylor Class, Dance Lesson, Computer Science Tutorial and Intro To Biology

[–] wieson@feddit.de 4 points 4 months ago

Plus it explains like the reader is kinda dumb

[–] wieson@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago

Drop in the bucket of this countries history and, in the end, nothing's going to be done. Significant portion of our population still believes this was a good thing. Of those that even remember this that is.

Significant portion || of those that even remember this || that is.

The "that is" is a clarifier, similar to "is what I meant".

Significant portion of our population still believes this was a good thing. Of those that even remember this, is what I meant.

Maybe a comma would've helped.

[–] wieson@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

What about @melonhusk and @skulnemo?

[–] wieson@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

Actually when I lived off grid for 80 years, we used 7 AAA batteries on a rotation and recharged them by rubbing them on our wool sweaters, so those guys are totally right.

[–] wieson@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Recessive isn't always bad. In fact, many (maybe all) genetic traits have a dominant and a recessive information.

For example peas. Let's say there is a gene for colour. The dominant variation of the colour gene carries the information "green". Let's call this gene c for colour. Then there is a recessive variation with the information yellow.

We'll write the dominant information as capital C and the recessive as lowercase c.

Now there is a pea with the genetic information CC (one from each parent). That's a green pea.

Then there is one with Cc (father green, mother yellow). But you see the pea and it looks just like a green pea. Because the green gene C is dominant and the yellow c is recessive. You don't know, that this is a mixed variety.

If two seemingly green peas pollinate each other, but under the hood, they are Cc, then they might produce a cc yellow pea.

For a lot of genetic information that's not a problem, they are just different characteristics and not harmful.

But if you have B = your blood coagulates normally, and b = your blood doesn't thicken, you just bleed out and die when you have a paper cut...

Then inheriting b from both of your parents is a terrible fate.

~~This happened in the House of Saxe-Cobourg and other nobility in the 19th century.~~

Edit: the last part is actually a bit more complicated, but the explanation of dominant and recessive still works.