IF PEOPLE COME FROM MONKIES THEN ESPLAIN WHY THERES SYTILL MONKIES

YOU'RE FANCY "SCIENCE" DOESNT HAVE ANY ANSWERS TO THAT, HUH SMART GUY?

>>8603755

Tomato sauce comes from tomatoes but there are still tomatoes.

>>8603788

mind=blown zomg

Is using gene therapy to modify all of the DNA in a persons body possible without harming them? Would any change take effect on a fully grown adult?

>>8603788
>taking a joke post seriously
>giving the wrong answer

Can you build a house out of a mouse?

>>8603833

Depends on the gene therapy. Usually it would be unlikely any 'therapy' would be given unless it would help them.

Gene therapy does work on adults, although it is a lot more effective when only a small number of cells need be transformed.

For example, they can cure colour blindness in monkeys by adding the DNA required to see green into a few of the photoreceptors cells which are used to see red.

In other words, these monkeys have half the original number of red pigment cells, but now they can also see green.
In just 10 weeks, their brains can learn to interpret green.

I have no questions about genetics.

wtf is that whole Human Genome thing about?

>>8603885

No. Mouse skeletal structure would not support it's weight if you scaled it up in size.
One trick to get more meat off a cow (and there are several) is to give it a shite load of growth factor hormone.

Cows get so big, their spines snap.
Instead, they removed myostatin, a protein used to keep the number of muscle cells in check. What you end up with is a really mean looking cow.

>>8603966
That's amazing. Both that it's possible to do that and the brain is that adaptable. I also wasn't aware you could modify only select portions, I assumed the body had to match, but I guess with things like organ donation that makes sense.

>>8604024

It's about sequencing every bit of DNA in an individual's genome, as was completed in 2003.
Since then, seriously large improvements have been made in sequencing machines, and more improvements are yet to come. It took 13 years to sequence on mans genome. Since 2003, several other individuals (i think it's like 4 or 5 now) have been sequenced.

>>8604109

What's the proposed application of it, though?

Do you have to write or manipulate your own sequencing algorthms to match your contigs together or do you just give your data to a computer guy?

brb. Getting food.

Is is possible to mutate cells and inverse the process of respiration? I want to breath carbon dioxide and release oxygen monoxide.

I've heard a lot of people talk about the 'Eve gene' which seems to indicate that every human on the planet has a common ancestor in one black woman living in Mesopotamia around 10,000 years ago.

So can I ask you, was SCIENCE just trying to mess with the christfag fundy's heads by calling it 'Eve'?

this may seem an odd question, but I figure what the hell

would cross genetics be possible to create catgirls/catboys?

Is it true that stem-cells harvested from umbilical cords at birth are more viable for experimentation and actual use than those taken from aborted fetuses?

>>8604311

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

>>8604271

no it probably just seemed apt to name it that.

>>8604364
But fundys are using it to argue that we come from Noah's wife because that's where they settled after the flood.

>>8604215
Not OP, but majoring in biochemistry here: No, that is in no way possible. The oxygen you breath in reacts into water, and the CO2 comes from sugars. reversing that process would be ridiculously complicated, and there would need to be another source of energy, not only to replace the energy you no longer get, but also to make the sugars .

>>8604433

That's their business then. Then gene was named because it traces a common female ancestor. Biblically, the common female ancestor of everyone is Eve.

So yes, there's a religious connection. Scientists can have religious thoughts and not be fundamentalists, too.

>>8604467
>Biochem major

Do you know anything about high oxygen levels in the atmosphere allowing Dinosaurs to reach such tremendous sise?

>>8604482
But biblically everyone was killed in the flood except Noah, his three sons and their wives so fundys say that the 'Eve' gene is actually from Mrs. Noah because she would have been a woman in Mesopotamia.

>>8604519
No, I don't think I do. Oxygen levels never where much higher then they are now, and if they where, I don't see how it would cause dinosaurs to grow so large.

Also, If oxygen levels would be about 40%, that's twice what they are now, most plants would spontaneously burst into flames.

Why do we have DNA?

Can you trace my ancestors back to the stone age? I need to know how much mudblood I have running through my veins, or how pure I am.

Okay, here's two:

How hard would it be to introduce plat/algae cells into humans to make them photosynthesize?

And how about genetically altering the photoreceptors in human eyes to make them respond to IR/UV light?

>>8604648
>more oxygen would make plants burst into flames
what is this I don't even

you can't have done much chemistry

>>8604726
care to explain that? With a higher concentration of oxygen, the temperature needed for things to spontaneously burst into flames would be much lower. I just remembered it as a side note from a geology course in year 1, but I don't see why it would be wrong.

>>8604648
well this about wraps that argument up...

>>8604838
on 4chan you can be completely right and still be considered wrong by most of the population...

>>8604973
Still, I'd like to hear why he thought so.

what sort of jobs can you get with that degree, and how much do they pay? Right now I'm majoring in Biology, but I might switch

>>8604726

What do you think fire needs an abundance of to burn yo?

John, quick question
Does Genetic Memory exist or is that all nonsense?

most of the population didn't go to Yale

> http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=4597

New Haven, Conn - A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds...

>>8605256

Psych PhD candidate here. It's nonsense.

>>8605256
John fucked off ages ago after dropping this steaming pile, to go and make all the other 'ask an X major anything' threads.

hey john

this is totally not related to your field

how come if you put women together without any male influence, their periods synchronise? i mean, whats up with that? just what exactly was god smoking when he patched that shit into us?

>>8605399
Speaking of which, ask an Ex Major anything.

Could you please explain the role of prenatal diet on epigenomics?

What job do you have right now? Do you have a PHD and is there any job market for a geneticist, if so what capacity does it take place in, IE researcher or kickass adventurer into Mayan burial grounds to receive golden statues.

Possibly genetics major here, right now I'm Biochemistry. Btw how much hard science did you take?

>>8604838
Activation energy and concentration are totally unrelated. It doesn't matter how much oxygen/fuel you've got if there's not enough energy to start the reaction off.

Where do you work and was it easy to find a job after you graduated?

PKUfag here.

How close are you guys to curing phenylketonuria? This diet sucks.

Disregard that I sucks cocks

I have a question relating to genetics.
How much inbreeding does it take to produce genetic mutation? Is it true that there is enough genetic material shared between cousins that there is no risk?
I ask this because I'm fairly sure it is true since many people have married cousins in the past and it suddenly became a big deal about 50-60 years ago.

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What does it mean when people say the blonde gene is recessive (sp) ?

Is it true that eventualy there will be no more natural blondes?

>>8605549

From what I've heard they treat it when the person is a baby. Basically the reason you're screwed up is because as a child you didn't get a necessary chemical to help with your development. For babies with that disease they just provide the necessary drug and keep them in one of those incubator thingies.

Now that you're full grown, however, you'll probably have to just deal with it.

>>8605655
It means that the gene doesn't get expressed in the presence of a more dominant brown/black gene. And recessive genes doesn't mean its a weaker or less likely gene, it just means it gets expressed less, but the ratio stays the same. If you have a population of say, Bb x Bb (B= Dom black, b= sub blonde), 3/4ths will have brown hair, but the distribution of genes will be equal, that means 1 BB, 1 bb, and 2 Bb which, excepting outside factors, will never fluctuate in proportions.

So there will always be blondes.

>>8605545
Actually, highering concentrations does lower the needed energy, certainly in exotherm reactions.
>>8605629
inbreeding doesn't cause mutations. Most people have a couple of genes that can cause all kinds of genetic diseases, but that are rare in the whole population. Since you have two copy's of every gene, and in most of these cases only one is needed to function, there is no problem. But family members share more genes in common with each other, so the chance of having a kid with two copy's of the bad gene increases a lot.

i understand that woman are born with all their ovaries, while men produce new sperm all the time. How does the sperm (and genes we pass on) differ between 20 year old and 45 year old of the same man.

>>8605991

Shouldn't differ at all. Your karyotype doesn't just change.

>>8605991

born is the wrong work i guess, idk when woman get their "fixed amount" of eggs. I guess puberty. The questions stands, what effect does ageing have on the genes we pass on.

>>8605785

is it true redheads will disappear within the next 50 years? if so, why?

>>8606073
>>8606073

But if the genes we pass on don't change. And the eggs of a woman always have the same genes also. Does that mean that if you take the same 2 sequences of chromosones and put them together (err fertilisation) the outcome is relativly (very hard to predict) random?

Someone fucking explain to me why we have DNA

Hello i got lots of stuff i would like to know
Currently im in high school, in class that specializes for languages (FUCK ME IN ASS, WRONG CHOISE RUIN LIFE PENIS)
Now im in 3rd year, i've had biology in second and now in third year. Next year i wont have it unfortunatly.
I Would really love to study genetics in collage but when i mentioned it to my dad he thought i was joking since he didnt belive i had what it takes for that.
Do u have to be some brainiac to get the degree? I'm not sure whether i can even get into a collage considering my current class and school, however im not a bad student
my avarage is 4.5 or 4.6 but i have all As exept for 2 Ds from German and latin (FUCK ME IN ASS BY BLACK NIGGERS, WRONG CHOISE AGAIN AIKNOU)
Please respond couse my question is long

Is it technically possible to live for over 500 years with the right therapy? I heard some shit about stem cells.

explain how ppl end up w/ gold and other odd colored eyes

>>8605785
I thought hair colour was codominant, like skin colour (ie black man + white woman = halfcast child). Am I right? Honestly just wondering

>>8606420

naw

>blox

Is there any tribe/ethnic group/similar of people that can be considered genetically superior to the rest of mankind?

Do you believe there is a 'gay' gene?

Or, more appropriately, is there a 'bisexual' gene?

i think John's "bored of fags" gene kicked in.

>>8606420
There are multiple genes that control hair (or eye) colour, so you can't just say something like that (although it is, in essence, right).

>>8606471
There is no such thing as genetically superior. If you are looking for an argument for white supremacy: there is more genetic diversity in black people then the rest of humanity combined.

>>8606345
I'm from europe, so I don't really understand what your school system or grades are. but if you think something's interesting and you're prepared to work for it, you would probably get trough college. Perhaps not the best ones, but it's something, right?

Tell me storys of the future of mankin mr.dude

>>8606512

Does she stick her finger up her hole in that set? cbf downloading the whole thing to find out

>>8603719

So i was watching tv the other day about evolution and then they mentioned genetic engineering and how soon ppl with be geneticly made before they are born.
Their looks, tempers, types, everything
Even their IQ could be raised immensly and those kids would surpass their parents and graduate from collages in early ages which is kinda scary honestly
What do u think of that? Possible?

And could a new type of humans be made?One with some animal features and abilities?

when do we get superpowers?

>>8606820

Myth busted! or confirmed, or whatever

Do you believe that humans can be separated into phylogenetic races based on genes OP?

Which gene is it that says that 1 eye goes next to 1 eye, and not 3 eyes go next to 17 eyes, or that one eye ends up in the face and one on the foot?

What is the jurisdiction of genes? Do they go so far as to actually control the personalities of people before they are even born? Or is this entirely dependent on how you are raised.

Also, are children of alcoholics more prone to become alcoholics themselves? I ask this because I was discussing this the other day with some people and it seemed rather interesting.

>>8607092
Not Op, but take a look there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hox_gene

I've heard some things about some strands being triple helix. Care to explain how they come about, and what separates them from regular double helix DNA?

Is there a non-surgical way to make my dick bigger?

>>8606685
>There is no such thing as genetically superior.
Because it's an opinion, as all claims of superiority are, but some races are more adapted to some things than others.

>If you are looking for an argument for white supremacy: there is more genetic diversity in black people then the rest of humanity combined.
This has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
That is actually not true etiher - AFRICA has more diversity tahn the rest of the world combined, but East, North, and South Africa aren't the same races as the Negroids of west-central Africa, who are often mixed anyway.

Are statistic probability of graduating college inheritable?

>>8607197
it depends on the trait, but many identical twins separated at birth had oddly similar personality traits.

personality is influenced by genes and environment, p[robably differening in amounts per person

there is a partial genetic basis to alcoholism too

>>8607294
intelligence is largely inheritable, but then again we see retards graduating from college so lolwut

>>8605785

this makes me vewy happy

>>8607272
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA#Alternate_DNA_structures

a nigger in my biology class asked me this: if everyone in the world started playing basketball, would the their kids be better at it? is that why records keep being broken?

Hey OP, got one for you: will you find a job with that?

>>8607349
>>8607349

Not 'largely', I think it explains less than 30% of IQ variance

>>8607258
That is quite cool.
On a related note, I once saw a strawberry where the seeds on the berry had all been replaced with tiny green shoots similar to what you find on the top.

>>8604467
*cough photosynthesis cough*

>>8607400
if you killed everyone that sucked, for sure, as non-athletic people with shitty genes would die out

but if everyone just played, people wouldn't just get better besides the fact taht they're playing more

Is there a gay gene or a pedo gene? If so, is it possible to, like, make a retrovirus to kill those with it?

>>8607431
*cough we're humans, not vegetables cough*

>>8607418
at least 1/2

>>8607331

Ooh, I see.

OP, you have reminded me why I decided to study Biology in the first place. Thank you.

>>8607509
not op, just some faggot that is obsessed with anthropology

>>8604215
>oxygen monoxide
>oxygen monoxide
>oxygen monoxide
>oxygen monoxide
O2?

why do they work?

>>8607400
This is why we shouldn't let niggers into post-secondary schools on athletic scholarships.

>>8607497
Yes, but you said to produce a process that was the reverse and produced sugars and converted co2 into oxygen. Then you've got photosynthesis.

OK, I did a lab in my science class where we precipitated DNA out of strawberries. I read the structure of DNA was partially discovered due to crystallography.

Two part question: How do I make DNA into crystals, and how do I get enough of my own DNA to do this?

>>8607494
No such genes, but we would be able to knock out them (not by using retroviruses though). Then, what about ethics? Would the world be ready to create genetically modified humans in order to protect our childrens?

How would I go about giving myself super strength and agility OP.

Also regeneration so I can live forever, but that's on the backburner for now.

>>8607658
Yes, yes it would. Also, what would be used in place of a retrovirus? Lipids?

Are niggers genetically inferior, if so how do we exterminate them?

>>8607665
By consuming your own semen you're able to make yourself stronger/more agile. It's because the semen in your stomach mixes DNA with it and everyone knows semen DNA is super-strong.

Any more trolling questions out there?

>>8603719

what makes a dominant gene dominant?

is it bigger? or what?

Okay OP, here is a real brainbuster for you: RrYY x RRYy
If R is for weather a person will fap with the right hand (and r being recessive for the left hand of course) and Y is weather they like it up the ass or not (y being not liking it), then what are the chances that the person will be predisposed to anally masterbate with the right hand?

>>8607890
Imagine, you have two alleles for a gene, coding for a protein. The first allele code for a fully functioning protein, the second one for an incomplete protein that do not interfere with the full protein. The first allele is called dominant for this gene.

Yeah, If man evolved from Echinoderms then how comes theres still monkeys?! HUH? MISTER SCIYUNYEST!?

Which chromosome is the one that when it has three will make you a retard?

>>8607992
Not OP, but down's syndrom = trisomy 21. So that is the 21st chromosome pair.

>>8607924

Answer is 0.

>>8607992
waitwaitwait I got this!

It's number 22 right

>>8607924

Answer is 100. Percent, that is.

>>8607788
i'd go for a knock out, check there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_knockout
and there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockout_mouse

How can I change my XY into an XX OP? I want to be a little girl see, and I figure that changing my gender is the first place to start.

>>8607975

so, could we have 2 dominanrt genes for the same characteristic?
could the blue eyes gene be modified to be dominant?

>>8608129
you're homosexual

>>8608129
You use a gene gun and shoot every cell in your body with miniature capsules of DNA that switches your sex-genes with that of a little girl.

Then you will become a little girl.

You're welcome.

What are the chances I will have a child with blue eyes? I'm a femanon who is part Filipina/Polish/Russian, just curious to see if I even have the chance. I have brown eyes and brown hair but extremely light skinned

>>8607924
ZERO.
Fags aren't people.

>>8608228
would it work if i just shot my genes into a little girl? ive done that a lot, by i might be DOING IT WRONG.

K back...

>>8604215
No. Plants do this, but you are not a plant.

>>8604271
This is based on mitrochondrial mtDNA phylogeny using best-fit algorithums. These algorithms are debatable at best. I would take it with a pinch of salt.
Also, yes they did call her eve to fuck with the Christians. Seems like scientists hate religion...

>>8604336
Possible, although i don't know the specifics. I would imagine that depending on how you abort the fetus would depend on how severely you effect the cells viability.

As soon as the fetus is dead, those cells are going to go into necrosis and everything is going to break down. Not particularly useful if you want to take those cells make make something...

>>8603719
Okay OP,here's the question

If OP's mother and OP's father are both heterosexual(obviously) then how come OP is such a GIGANTIC FAGGOT?

>>8608230
Depends if you carry recessive blue.

Go there and play with possibilities.

http://www.athro.com/evo/inherit.html

>>8608230

Depends on which genotype you have.

If you find a blue-eyed guy, chance could be 0% or 50% for a child with blue eyes.
If you find a brown-eyed guy, chance could be 0% or 25% for a child with blue eyes.

Note that "blue" here means "blue or green", since blue and green eyecolor is genetically almost the same (lack of brown pigment).

What are the eye colors of your parents?

>>8608135
two alleles can be co-dominant yes.for the second question i don't know

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/scientists-make-cancer-cells-vanish-1.1022114

what do you say about this

>>8604519

That's crazy talk. If that where true, fish/etc living in the depths of the ocean would be the smallest (as they have little available oxygen), however they tend to be massive.

>>8604694

Unfortunatly, contrary to popular belief, there is little one can ascertain from your DNA that isn't already obvious. I could tell you where probably from a certain race of humans... but just looking at you one would already know that.
Tracing ancestors basically goes as far back as DNA sequencing... which isn't very far.
IMHO, all those sites where you give a swab sample and they tell you if your a G1 or B3 or whatever it is are a load of shite.

How come the DNA polymerase found in Thermatus aquaticus is more heat resistent than DNA polymerase found in mammals and such?

What do these Haplogroup types, that /stormfront/ posts actually mean?

>>8604710

The former is unlikely because in order for humans to have the ability to photosynthesis (which i guess is what your looking for here), we would have to have all the chemical pathways for photosynthesis, including all the pathways for getting rid of all those free radicals brought about by the pathway.
In essence, plants are designed to do this and that's what makes them plants. A true animal/plant hybrid would probably look nothing like an animal or a plant....

You could, if you really want to get in on some photosynthesis, become a symbiotic species which grows in/around plant matter - like algae :D

>>8608387

Mother has brown eyes/Father has blue

>>8608477
The complete calvin cycle is totally irrelevant to us. We then have to use water as electron donor and produce oxygen as a waste product. That doesn't seem logical

>>8605217

Better than if you had no degree or a degree in sociology...

>>8605256
It does.. to a degree. Depends on what you're getting at.
If you mean like Altiar from Assains Creed and shit.... no. hehe.

But your DNA does contain some information passed from the parent cells. Methylation of Cytosine residues for one. This allows the cell to know which strand of DNA is the old strand, and which is the new - as well as remembering to keep all the genes the parent cell had switched off, switched off!

>>8608387
Yes in simple terms, yes. But it's not a 50 or 0 probability. There's always the chance of crossing-over to occur during mitosis, or transposon shit, mutations, or things like that.

Broad question, and already sort of answered, but can you briefly explain why intelligence is not inheritable? My friend who is working towards an MD says it isn't, but there are so many fools who claim it is. What can I tell them in simple terms to prove them otherwise?

>>8608464
i guess it's because its structure. that's a really complex question.

dear john the geneticist

i am a botanist by hobby, and i learned that self pollinating plants are a recessive trait among them

how rare and difficult would it be to recreate the dominant gene of a plant that cannot pollinate itself

or has the trait essentially been bred out?

Why does a OY sex chromo pair result in a non viable zygote instead of a super masculine bitch killer.

>>8604519
it's not that the dinosaurs were bigger, it's the insects in that time period. Because insects rely on diffusion to get oxygen to their tissues, the conc. of atmospheric O2 is a limiting factor for growth. When that concentration was higher the insects were able to respire more efficiently and could grow to larger sizes. I hope that helped, google can probably come up with a more articulate version of that,

>>8608525

Ok, then you most likely have genotype brown/blue.

If you find a blue-eyed guy, chances are 50%
If you find a brown-eyed guy, chances could be 0% or 25% (depending if he has genotype brown/blue or brown/brown).

And note that I'm still counting blue and green as the same color.

>>8608600
well, what is intelligence?

>>8608679
Fuck off, philosophyfag.

Hey OP

>>8607637

was a serious question. Any ideas? Places were I could find this out?

John
Can you help me clone myself so I can go to work while I sit at home and fap?

can a unicellular organism have a defective P53 gene?

>>8605415

Menstruation isn't exactly my forte, however i would hypothesis that two things may be going on.
1) Women living in a similar environment (ie nuns, which i think was the study you're referring to) are exposed to the same stresses and whatnot, and i know stress can make women miss.delay their menstruation. In otherwords, it's not being near women that does it - but women being in the same place/situation.

2) Your more likely to notice/remember that time when your friends where having periods when you where. As a result, you think it happens more than it actually does.

btw i'm back from food.

>>8609464
please look at my question again, i think you missed it


>>8608615

As a male, who did I most likely inherit my genetics for height from?

>>8605435

I doubt it is significant as people suggest.
Epigenetic markers are only important from a fetal point of view when those effects are effecting the sex cells (your eggs).

Certainly, due to the mother's environment it's going to have an epigenetic effect. Just sitting in the sun for 5 minutes will change all sorts of epigenetic things.

But i doubt the sex cells change. When talking about cells in the human body, often we make the distinct difference between sex cells and autosomal cells (all cells which aren't sex cells), because sex cells do a lot of things differently.

>>8605575
lol. The irony is that your called a fag if you use trips, and now i'm being called a fag for not :P

>>8605629

A lot of people have a defect in one of there genes (of which they have a copy from their father and mother).
Usually, this makes little difference, as one gene usually carries you through, and if you mate with someone who's quite genetically different to you, there's little chance of that fucked gene being carried through.

If you shag your relatives however, it's way more likely your relative will also have that buggered gene, and your children will be homozygous retarded.

So, yeah. It's never a good idea.

If you want to make a mouse less afraid of being in open spaces, it only takes 10 generations to alter their personality this way. They will be totally fearless.
It would take a lot less to make a mouse a total fuckup if you wheren't picky about how.

>>8605655

Unlikely. Many recessive genes are maintained stably in a population. Even deleterious genes can be maintained or even fixed in a population.

Also, males have been proven to be more attracted to blondes - unless there are a large concentration of blondes, in which case brunettes are more preferable. It's called the rare hair phenomenon.

>>8605991

Women are indeed born with all their ovaries (although i think you meant to say eggs....)

Anywho, sperm production does decrease with age. No idea how much - i imagine it depends on the person.

>>8606098

No that's retarded. A redhead will be born today who will live beyond 50.

>>8606297
So we can evolve.

>>8606345
There are a lot of dumb-as-shit people on my course. If you study hard you can get a 1st, even if you're the dumbest person you know.

>>8606369

What, that they make you live forever? Sadly no.
I mean, it's possible... but not likely. Every time your cells divide, they fuck up. They also don't copy the end section of your chromosomes (called telomeres) properly. In otherwords, it's possible to die of 'old DNA'. This is why Dolly the cloned sheep died.
The DNA she had came from an already old sheep, so she was born with old DNA.

>>8606392

Evolution, look it up.

>>8606471
Depends. How would you define superior? =P

>>8606512
There is not. They have looked for it extensively, but it doesn't seem to exist. Seems like people are just gay by nurture and not nature :P

>>8607637
Well for as far as I know, you have A- B- and Z-DNA and one of those has a left turning structure, other one is right turning (and kinda deformed) and another one is how it is in crystallography, and I guess the hydrogen bonds and such are organised differently, the negative charged phosphate groups tend to stick to the outside so the whole outside becoms netto negative charged, allowing to form ion-bonds, and thus dna-salts with sodium or potassium or whatever.

It's just a wild guess, can you help us out john?

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>>8606713

wat.

>>8606996
It's certainly possible to take the best genes from the population and put them in one person, but it isn't likely we will see Americans walking around with bear arms, even if they are entitled to it.

Is it possible to genetically alter a human being for him to have bee stingers on his fingers. If so, how would this be possible.

>>8607086

Yes they can and are - however cheap flights will likely soon make it irrelevant when we're all a shade of beige.

>>8610022
How about the enzyme telomerase. Cancercells make them, right? To be able to divide moar?

are their any good jobs for geneticists?

@John: I find your inability to distinguish between "you're", "your", "they're", "their", and "there" to cast a fairly large shadow of doubt upon your claim to have a "degree in genetics".
Or I would at least think it's safe to assume that you don't have a doctorate, in which case everything you're saying is most likely complete and utter bullshit that you pulled out of your ass.
That said, I am currently taking a microbiology course in which we are learning about RNA and gel electrophoresis (being used in our lab soon to identify species of the plant pathogen Phytophthera ramorum) and I was wondering: why are viruses, which replicate their DNA, so much more difficult to find cures for than most bacteria/protists? I just started this course so I am sure that it's a dumb question, or unanswerable. Was just wondering though. My own guess is that it has something to do with the fact that bacteria are farther from eukaryotes phylogenetically, and are therefore easier to produce antibiotics which target them; and that viruses are somehow closer to us, making it harder to target them without also killing the host.

how do the genitals develop on a growing fetus?

not sure if genetics...

>>8607092

Are you high?!
Look in the fucking mirror - you're symmetrical dipshit.

Anywho, you don't have eyes in your feet because your cells all know there position in relation to each other by paracrines.


>>8607197
Your personality is mainly determined by your environment/experiences when your young, but as you get older it appears your genes play a larger role. This is why people become like their parents as they get older.
It's completely anti-intuitive, but it's proven fact...

I recently found out that my parents are half-siblings (same mother) (he was put up for adoption before she was born, no one ever thought to tell the pair their relation, they married in secret and ran away together when they found out - long story). They're also 2nd cousins because dad's parents are 1st cousins.

What are the chances that there's something wrong with me and my twin sis Katy? There's nothing apparent and mom did get a scan when she was pregnant so it's unlikely.

>>8607272

Never heard of it.
Heard of codons of four bases (instead of the usual four), but i doubt that's what you're talking about.

>>8607287
Probably, but it's unlikely to be achieved via 'mechanical' means. When such a 'cure' is discovered, trust me, *you will know about it*!

>>8610365
I don't find that a satisfying awnser, I also doubt your degree

>>8603755
most successful troll evar

>>8603719
Could a DNA altering virus such as T G or progenitor virus be possible?

>>8607400

Only if the losers where executed.

>>8607413
Probably not. That's not how education works.
99% of my class will try to get a job doing something else and fail. I will go on to get my PHD and continue the cycle of teaching this shit.

Is your personality influenced by genetics or is it created from your environment?

>>8610403

lol are your parents still together?

How likely am I to pass on my bipolar disorder to my children if my husband has no signs of it genetically? He uses 23&me and we know there are no signs of bipolar on either side of his family. I, on the other hand, have it from both sides of my family. Cousins and aunts on my mother's side and my father and paternal grandmother had it.

>>8603719
So, DNA supposedly stands for deoxyriboneuceic acid, right? And athiets say that we have this "dna" in every atom of our bodies. But what would actually happen if we had acid in our bodies? We would melt! I'd like to hear how a so called "geneticist" explains this away.

>>8607272
Well it is possible but there are unused hydrogen bonds and the third string just acts like a template. But yeah, there is a possible building of a DNA triple helix between the G-rich neo-synthesized DR1 and the base-paired homologous G.C-rich DR2. But the triple helices tend to form hairpinloops very easily

>>8608464
>>8610299
Oooh, ooh, same person here, and I actually just learned the answer to this today (in that micro class I just mentioned)!
The reason that the polymerase of THERMUS (correct spelling) aquaticus can withstand higher temperatures is that it is a thermophilic bacterium. It is "thermophilic" because it thrives in higher temperatures: its proteins do not denature at extreme temperatures and it does not use oxygen as a final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain of cellular respiration.
The fact that John didn't answer this (fairly fundamental question) about THE MOST IMPORTANT ENZYME IN THE STUDY OF DNA makes me doubt his credentials even further.

>>8610547
Yes, they're horribly in love. Like, even before Katy and I knew they were related. They chose each other over her parents and his adoptive parents and ran away together, which is kinda romantic in a fucked up way.

Just want to know the likelihood of genetic defects. I mean: should I have children?

Where can I download the whole human DNA? I don't have special bio-professional software, so please go easy.

>>8610603
which is why DNA is wrapped around histons to neutralize the acid

>>8610403
you wrote about this on /b/ a few weeks ago amiright?

now I believe you

>>8607494

Snake... you're getting old...

>>8607637
lol no. You're thinking of x-ray crystallography.
XRC is used to get an idea of the structure of protiens. It involves getting such a high concentration of proteins that they form crystals. Only some proteins do this, but when they do, you can build a three dimensional model of a protein quite easily.

>>8607890

I GENUINELY HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA! WTF Man!?!

>>8610603
Aaah jesus christ.
Oh noes i put acetic acid on my salad, oh noes vinegar. I'm meltinf, my alkaline sodium bicarbonate form no match for vinegar! And omgz0rs, stomach acid with pH <1.
Ribonucleic acid is buffered, and would be around 6 or something i guess.

>>8610629
>>8610299
And I just love how he continues to ignore me, rofl

>>8610676
Yes, I told /b/ because i can't tell anyone in real life because all hell would break loose.

No.

Do you have any questions about my degree subject - Wanking?

>>8610603
How the fuck can you have DNA in your atoms you stupid fuck?

>>8610723
failed troll is butthurt

>>8610720
Even if it were one of, if the the weakest acid, it's supposedly inside every single atom of our bodies. We would melt just because there was so much.

>>8610782
you wont melt if you douse yourself in vinegar will you?

Are races a social construct?

>>8608129

Too late, you've already gone through sexual development and your ovaries have been degraded :(

>>8608464

Protein contains more disulphide bonds keeping it stable/together at higher temperatures.
Unfortunatly, this increase in working temperature is offset by it's increased inaccuracy when copying.

>>8610629
Yes I spelled it wrong, that was dumb. But I knew it was derived from extremophilles but why is it stonger. Not having oxygen as an electron donor seems like a strange reason to me. I actually thought I've heard something a while ago about the cell membranes being ethers instead of esters, so they're more heat resistant, but that seems irrelevant to the enzyme Taq polymerase. Also op is a undergraduate fag.

>>8608600

Your friend is a retard, which would explain why he doesn't want to think inheritance in inheritable, and his children will be dumbshits too.

Intelligence in inherited, however it's also very complicated and mainly due to nurture anyway.

>>8610799
It can't get through your skin to the atoms inside. The whole point of evolution is that we already have this acid inside us. It doesn't have to melt through to get there, it's already there.

>>8610813
jealous fag is butthurt

>>8610782
ACIDS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY

>>8610866
Acid is MADE of atoms ya dumb christfag troll

>>8610867
Of what? Someone pretending to have a degree in genetics, while he cant resolve basic questions? No.

>>8608633

There are many important non-sex-related genes on the X chromosome. You need that shit.

>>8608966

If you want to do that, why wouldn't your clone? :P

>>8611000
jealous fag is crying for attention

>>8610813
OP of the response; yeah, actually, you're right it does. All I know is that it DOES have to do with the fact that their cell membranes are more heat resistant due to the proteins/enzymes they are comprised of (I haven't yet learned EXACTLY what those proteins are yet in my class). I'll have to ask my prof on Wednesday. Also, "polymerase" is not always structured the same; so the true answer is that the structure of these particular bacteria's polymerase is different in such a way that it is heat resistant.
>>8610768
Yeah, totally a troll because I am CURRENTLY LEARNING about genetics and sincerely doubt the credentials of someone who is claiming to be an expert. Totally. And I agree he's probably an undergrad. Which renders everything he (and I) are saying pretty useless, lol.
Still, though, take his answers with a grain of salt, please : / We don't need MORE dumbasses claiming they know shit about GENETIXZ

Edited: because I linked the wrong post like a tard.

And to "jealous fag", lol how am I jealous? I asked a legitimate question about genetics, too.

>>8610251

That is exactly correct :3

>>8610299
I'm autistic. I can't spell for shit. It also makes me the rainman of genetics.
To answer your question, the reason virus like HIV are so difficult to cure, is because they are so simple.
There are several weakpoints in a bacterium. You can fuck up the cell wall/membrane, you can interfere with there ribosomes, etc etc.

Virus's have very few weak points, because they rely on our own cells to propergate. Essentially, this means we have to target our own cells in order to kill them. This, usually kills us in the process.

>>8603719
What is the longest time someone has monitored a sealed environment, and waited/coaxed life to form on it's own?

*by "coaxed" I mean by applying heat, electricity, etc...

>>8611142
Good answer, thanks.

>>8610354

You (i'm guessing your male) are born with sex cells which are like ovaries. At a certain stage of development, if you have the SOX genes that males have, they repress the Wnt genes which code for female development. The ovarian ducts get degraded, and the multi-potent sex cell move down south to form testis... or something. I havn't done sex development for a long time :/

>>8610403

You've entrusted a stranger on 4chan with an answer that could potentially be devastating for you. That alone suggests that you didn't come out quite O.K.... :P

Nah i'm sure you're fine :]

>>8603719


if i gave you all the genetic information about an unborn baby, how accurately could you draw a picture of them middle aged?

Provide you were actually good at drawing.

>>8610552

Unlikely as it's recessive. Your children are likely to be carriers though.
Also, work has been done recently to see if you can tell if someone is bipolar metabolomicaly. A sample of your blood/bile should do the trick, and you will know if your children will have it or not. Expect to see this in 4 years from now when it becomes more widely accepted.

>>8611282
I was hoping you knew a study that could give percentages. I found one from 1994 that said children of 1st cousins (like my dad) had a 4.4% higher chance of genetic disease, but that's not much.

>>8610603

Cell, not atom.

Your stomach acid is made of.... acid (and you haven't melted yet)