The science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.
Questions tagged [genetics]
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Is 80% of childs intelligence acquired from mother?
Several articles on internet claim that 80% of child's intelligence is acquired from mother. however not providing any scientific publications. Is it really true?
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Are red-heads going extinct?
There is a widely-held belief that there will no longer be humans with red hair in the future (sometimes cited by 2060 or 2100).
For example, these Facebook groups:
"Save the ginger kids, there going extinct D:"
One of my teachers told me that in…
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Did the Lenski experiments result in additional genetic information?
In the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham on Feburary 4, 2014, Ham claimed the Richard Lenski experiments added no new genetic data. He went on to show a clip from Dr. Andrew J. Fabiach, a creationist that teaches at Liberty University,
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Are new genes created through duplication?
In an creationist article, about molecular virologist, Dr Yingguang Liu, it says:
Evolutionists commonly invoke ‘duplication’ as a way to create brand new genes. A copying error can lead to an extra copy of a gene, which supposedly can then go on…
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Ethnoreligions: what religions explicitly claim heritability?
Several SE/SO questions (e.g., this) address what is often claimed to be (often correctly) confusion between ethnicity and religion. Certainly (IIUC, ICBW) most modern religions tend to be avowedly (pun intended :-) cognitive: they require…
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Is homosexuality primarily genetic?
It seems to me that, evolutionarily speaking, the fitness of a purely homosexual animal or human is much lower than that of a heterosexual one, and therefore would be strongly selected against. Thus I am puzzled at the apparent rate of homosexuality…
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Does a gene predict the time of day one dies?
In this article from the Huffington Post it is mentioned that a certain gene can predict what time one will die (of natural causes). Not the date, but the time of the day.
"This particular genotype affects the sleep-wake pattern of virtually…
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Is it possible have a cell fusion by just injecting human sperm to an unfertilized chicken egg?
I stumbled upon these video documentation titled 'Humonculus' in Youtube (I know Youtube is not reliable source, but the video to me looks legit and well video documented) by channel named Planet Nibiru. The videos were about a Russian Alchemist…
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Are Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen fraternal twins?
Wikipedia claims that American actors Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen are fraternal twins. They have also both claimed this. Other sources claim the same: Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times, and the LA Times.
Are they fraternal twins, or…
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Did Neanderthals keep Cro-Magnons as sex-slaves?
Some time ago, it was thought that modern people came from Cro-Magnons, and Neanderthals became extinct. But after the Neanderthal genome project, we found that modern people have from 1% to 4% of Neanderthal DNA.
This lead to the idea that…
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Do only ~2.4% of participants in large-scale genetic studies have African ancestry?
From a February 18 23andMe tweet:
Only about 2.4% of participants included in large-scale genetic studies have African ancestry.
Is this claim true?
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Are crocodiles more closely related to birds than lizards and snakes?
In this video Owl, The Best Pet Reptile? you can hear Clint say,
Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards and snakes.
Is this claim true?
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Do Jews mostly descend from Shem, son of Noah?
I mean, I am not exactly a creationist.
However, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem
How come we have a race called "semite" as in anti-semite? It's as if people think that those people are descendant from Shem, mythical son of Noah.
Here, the picture…
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