[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Genetics - Or fun with Mendel's peas..

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 76100



meltowne wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, jazmyn <jazmyn at p...> wrote:
> 
>  > WW + Ww = 3/4 wizard children
>  > Out of 4 kids:
>  > 1 squib
>  > 3 wizards
> 
> a correction:
> 
> 1/2 WW Squibs
> 1/2 Ww Wizards
> 
> 

Ah, you are right.  That's what I get for trying to chart it when I just 
walked in from 111 degree temperatures here in Texas. I was almost ready 
to add that maybe a gene connected with red hair carried a lethal gene, 
causing non-magical children to not be born due to not advancing beyond 
the 1st trimester and being reabsorbed or passed out unnoticed or 
something, to explain the Weasleys having all magical children. 
However, this would only make sense IF the squib relative of Ron's did 
not have red hair.  If there are no red headed squibs, it might add 
something to this.  However, the Weasley's might just also being beating 
the odds.

Jazmyn