wizard geneology - Genius or Baloney?

[susanmcgee48176]

No: HPFGUIDX 148101

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "chnc1024 at ..." <chnc1024 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> >
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chancie" <chnc1024@> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Susan McGee wrote:
> > > > Let's call the gene M for Magick. In order to be a 
witch/wizard
> > > > you must have one Magick gene.
> > > >
> > > > You can have one to four Magick genes....1 - 2 from each 
parent. 
> > > > The more Magick genes you have the more potentially powerful 
a 
> > > > witch or wizard.
> > > >
> > > > A bunch of Muggles have one M gene, but never figure it out
> > > > because they have Muggle parents, and their magic is not very 
> > > > strong so it doesn't manifest itself ...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > *************************************************************
> > > 
> > > Chancie:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Just wanted to comment a bit. While you have the POTENTIAL 
having
> > > a combination of any 4 genes, you would only get 1 from your 
mom 
> > > and 1 from your dad.If you got all your Parents genes, then with
> > > in a few generations you'd have like 16 genes for only 1 trait!
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I hope that helps clear things up a bit.
> > >
> >
> > bboyminn:
> >
> > I'm certainly no expert, or even a novice, in the field of 
genetics,
> > but don't we all have ALL genes. I was pretty sure the number was
> > fixed, and whether a particular gene was active depended on the
> > combinations of that genes from your parents. I don't remember the
> > exact total, but I think the mathematical number of combinations 
is
> > somewhere around 7 billion.
> >
> ***************************************************
> 
> Chancie:
> 
> Yes, you are right we do have A LOT of different genes, I was simply
> talking about the genes for 1 trait. For example, brown eyes
> are more dominate that blue eyes.  So if 2 people with brown eyes 
have 
> a baby, it is possible for that child to have blue eyes, if both 
parents are
> carriers of the recessive "blue eye" trait.  Kinda like this.
>   
> 
> Lets use B for brown eyes (dominant genes are USUALLY shown as caps)
> and b for blue eyes.
> 
>     	      B      b
> 	
> 	B   [BB]  [Bb]
> 	
> 	b    [Bb]   [bb]
> 
> 
> The above shows that if these two people had a child, they would 
have 
> a 3 in 4 chance of having a child with brown eyes, and a 1 in 4 
chance
> of having a brown eyed baby.  
> 
> 
> *****************************************************
> 
> > bboyminn again:
> 
> > Unless I'm mistaken the DNA chain splits in half length-wise, and 
half
> > of your mother's combines with half of your fathers. That is all 
of
> > your fathers 'halves' combine with all of your mother's halves, 
and
> > the combination creates a complete DNA ladder. When two specific 
DNA
> > halves mate, they create the genetic characteristic of blue eyes,
> > brown eyes, prone to cancer, or whatever.
> >
> *******************************************************
> 
> Chancie:
> 
> Absolutely correct!
> 
> 
> *******************************************************
> 
> > bboyminn again:
> > So, if there are four magic genes they can either be active or
> > dormant. Let me represent 'active' genes with CAPITAL letters and
> > dormant genes with lower case letters.
> >
> > Now say the Father is ABcd and the mother is aBCd, the son would
> > surely be, at bare minimum, aBcd. Both parents are 'B' active, 
that
> > guarantees that the son would be 'B' active. Now however, the 
father
> > is 'A' active while the Mother is 'C' active, but the Mother 
is 'a'
> > inactive and the Father is 'c' inactive. I think those genes are
> > somewhat luck of the draw. Though not necessarily mathematically
> > correct, in general, the son has a 50/50 chance of either 
being 'A'
> > active, 'C' active, or both.
> 
> <Snip>
> 
> > I think a Squib is created when an 'aBcD' father marries a 'AbCd'
> > mother, and by luck of the draw, the son turns out to be 'abcd', 
or
> > all magic genes are 'inactive'. The most powerful wizard would be
> > created by the combination of an 'ABCd' Father and an 'aBCD' 
mother,
> > and luck of the draw produce an 'ABCD' son (or daughter). The 
minimum
> > the son could be, would be 'aBCd'. 
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> 
> Chancie:
> 
> Now I'm not a genetic expert, but the way I was taught is that you 
get
> 1 gene from each parent for a specific trait.


That was the way I was taught..but it's a little simplistic..if you 
look at the genes for certain diseases, for example, it's not so 
clear cut...Genes can combine to do various things...

Susan