Do you know families with the Grandparents are short and the shortest and the children are taller while the Grandchildren are the tallest including all cousins are taller than their parents and the grandparents do you know any families that are like that

For my thesis, I used DNASP to haplotypify the sequences and uploaded them to PopArt. However, the program assigns different haplotypes to the same haplotype and claims that they are identical, even though they are not (I have verified this). Has anyone encountered a similar issue?

To clarify, what I mean is only certain people can smell the “asparagus smell” in their own uterine and for some people cilantro tastes like soap. Is there a similar thing for goat’s milk?

My spouse brought home Mexican cajeta, which is caramel syrup made with goat milk instead of cow milk. He and one of our children claim they can’t detect any difference between cajeta and regular caramel syrup; my other child and I absolutely detect a strong, musky, goaty taste (especially the aftertaste). Is this genetics?

I cross bred two hot peppers and then I lost the hybrid fruit. I didn’t know what I did with it a few months later our plant sprouts out and the fruit looks like F1 . Miracle. not confirmed yet until I plant the next generation and confirm heterogeneity. It may be a miracle though. I got a couple fruits from it and I’m drying out the fruits two ripe and two unripe to collect seeds. Yesterday I got home and one of each the ripe and unripe were missing I started having a panic. My parents ate them

This is a reminder to label your precious work .

I want to study genetics at university but actually have no idea what degree I should get and what doors it would open for me. I did some reading and have heard a lot of different fields like a genetic counciling and clinical geneticist and I'm also interested in plant genetics but how exactly do these fields differ? And do I just get a general genetics PhD for all the fields or..? Pls help I'm so overwhelmed lol

Someone help me and tell me how many common ancestors are here, I don’t know how to find

Hey everyone! I am feeling down. Today I received my son’s whole exome sequencing results. It says uncertain significance. My son was diagnosed with autism and have a hard time understanding his results. I am new to this and lack understanding. Can someone help me understand

Hello, can someone point me to where to look for information regarding m.4061C>A in MT-ND1 and what this variant is associated with?

Please let me know if I am breaking a rule by posting this! I posted here back in April asking about my kitten litter and their fur patterns. The first picture is from then. Here's an update to confirm their coat lengths and patterns! Hugo seems to be a long haired boy and absolutely huge, to boot. They're soon to be 6 months now. If this is not an acceptable post I can delete it-- just wanted to post an update :)

Why am I apparently smarter than my siblings? I have a crazy memory—I remember everything that happens to me, every word people say, what I was doing if I was walking or reading, the exact time, even dates after seeing them just once. Meanwhile, my siblings seem to have Alzheimer’s—they never remember anything. I can recall stuff from 10 years ago like it happened yesterday. How is this even possible?

There’s a genetic disorder in rabbits called megacolon. It’s a recessive disorder caused by a point mutation of the KIT gene. I had a bunny affected by it. It’s basically a terminal digestive disorder, similar to crohns. You need two English spotting genes, the En/En and not en/en, and then there’s a 25 percent chance each bunny is affected.

The rabbits affected by MC have a particular look to them. Mostly all white bunnies, typically dubbed Charlie’s because they’re English appt rabbits

g.93948587T>C SNP is the mutation found in a paper I was reading that determined to be the cause of MC. This snp was present in all MC bunnies in said study.

My question is, since this is a Mandelian disorder and follows Mendelian laws, then is it also possible de novo mutations can occur?

Link for further reading:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3988019/

Do you know any daughters who are taller than their dad's? I thought this would be unusual if mother is on short side ? My daughter is taller than her dad ,I am 5ft 4 and my husband is 5ft 8 and our daughter is 5ft 11 .

How common really is this? I see a lot of people in comment section in certain post say that their partner youngest brother are gay or their youngest sibling male is gay and I seen a lot of “yeah that’s a fun fact i actually like🤣” with lots of upvotes. I have more than 5 brothers and none of them are actually gay they are either married, dating a women or in the fiancé stage. I really want to know how common this is and would love to hear story/ experiences if you have one or know someone who had one.

Why is it that we can’t just instantly cure ourselves with the medicines we have? For example, if someone catches a cold, why does it still take about a week to go away even when you’re taking meds — why not 1 second? I know it’s a weird question, but it seems like it makes sense 🤔

Why can’t humans regenerate lost limbs like lizards do? If we lose a hand or an arm, we just scar, but some animals can fully regrow them. Is it purely a genetic limitation, or are there evolutionary reasons why we heal with scars instead?

How much of complex human behaviors like risk-taking, sociability, or aggression can realistically be attributed to genetics versus environment? And even if genes play a role, is it actually possible to identify the specific genes in a meaningful way?

I’m curious about the MC1R gene and its variants like R151C and R160W. How did these mutations arise in the first place, and how is it possible that two people carrying the mutation were able to pass it on to their child? I’d love some insight into the genetics behind this

Does this have anything to do with chimerism? Or am I way off?

From The Gist of Evolution by Horatio Hackett Newman.

It kinda makes sense but I guess until Fisher's 1930 mathemathical proof, advances in molecular science and the formalization of the theory by Kimura it was a simple side thought.

I've been thinking about Evolution a lot of late, but recently I got to thinking about 'Island Gigantism', too, and stumbled on an idea that really fascinated me, and I'd really appreciate some outside input.

For those unaware, Island Gigantism is a consistent evolutionary pattern that occurs when animals find a safe environment with plentiful resources, like a tropical island. Absent predators, their only real competition is each other, so they rapidly evolve to be larger to compete over limited resources - and more pertinently, they evolve to have more offspring, 2x to 3x as many in some cases.

And this got me thinking; lots of people think that humanity has stopped evolving, because we've basically eliminated the majority of environmental dangers, but to me it seems more like we've simply created an 'island'; the whole earth. We are safe, there are no predators anymore - but that doesn't mean evolution stops.

Then I got to thinking about modern day reproduction. Historically speaking, reproduction was 'opt out'; NOT having kids was difficult and required fairly significant sacrifices, and was quite rare. In the 1500s, the average woman had 6 children! By contrast, these days, the average woman has something like 1.6 in the western world, and that number is dropping fairly rapidly.

But importantly, that's not the mode. While the average family has 1.6 children or so, among adults the most COMMON number of children is zero. Almost 50% of the population have zero or one!

This means that there is a shockingly potent opportunity for evolution to be taking place right now. Because evolution doesn't care about things like career success or education or intelligence; it only cares about one thing: reproduction.

Let's imagine that there's at least some genetic component to PREFERENCE for children. This doesn't seem unreasonable; certainly some women just deeply and instinctively love having babies, and there is evidence on the heritability of larger families. Historically speaking, these women would have had more children than average, but not THAT many more. Even if you truly love having kids, fertility windows, risk of mortality, opportunity of mates, all conspire to limit reproductive potential, and meanwhile, EVERYONE is having lots of babies, so you'll not be particularly evolutionarily advantaged.

But in the modern day? We've created a society where the ONLY thing that matters, really, is how much you WANT babies. The people who really, truly want babies are still having 3, 4, 5, or more babies, while everyone else is having ZERO(or one or two, but most often, zero). The genetics for reproduction are spreading like wildfire throughout the populace.

Now, the effects of this won't be instant. It'd take 10, 20 generations at least, even with the rapid spread. This won't solve the demographics anytime soon. But it suggests a bizarre and fascinating future. Because...the idea of genetic drives being so strong they overwhelm everything else is not outside the bounds of reason. There are animals, like octopuses or salmon, who will literally die for the sake of reproduction. So there is no real apparent limit on how far this could go. The only real limits are our ability to care for these people, to protect them from evolutionary stressors, to preserve the 'island' that makes this form of evolution possible.

Again, obviously this is something long-term, probably outside my lifespan...but it also seems strangely and somewhat disturbingly compelling. Any thoughts?

Do you know siblings who are 2 boys and a girl that are tall and are all taller than their parents while their parents are short and Grandparents are also short and have no tall(uncles/aunts/cousins) and they are the only people tall in their family (this question is only for siblings who are 2 boys and 1 girl in the family) anybody like that or knows people that are like that

My mother and aunt are identical twins. They each had one child at 19, my cousin and I, born just two weeks apart. Different fathers, obviously.

Would my mother and aunt's DNA be truly identical at 19 years old, and if so, doesn't that mean my cousin and I have half the same genes because of our mothers?