Stature

I'll just answer the ones that aren't answered yet. 1. Any description of a trait, such as green eyes (eye color), brown hair (hair color), tall stature (height), etc. 2. The position of a gene in the chromosome is it's locus (plural-locii). 3. An allele that's only expressed when in a homozygous ...

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Yes but where is the limit to what is acceptable and what is not? A short stature can be a handicap, if i can have someone go from 120cm to 175cm by gene alteration, I will probably make his r her lie much easier, but what would be the maximum height where this ...

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... excellent information to add to the thread. I think that the best of all was in comments of the first article where it was mentioned that the body stature and giant feet might be a swimming adaptation. With flippers like that I would imagine they could have swam to the island after getting lost ...

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... Some of the genetic medical conditions hobbit morphology resembles could be showing the genes that are reregulated (but safely) to achieve that stature. The current most popular facial reconstruction seems to have the bone structure correct, but the hard part is the eyes and other parts that ...

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... and 17,000 White children showed that Black children had a smaller head perimeter at birth and, although Black children were born shorter in stature and lighter in weight than White children, by age 7 'catch-up growth' led Black children to be larger in body size than White children. However, ...

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