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Y-suppressed lethal gene

y-suppressed lethal gene

(Science: genetics) In the fruit fly drosophila, this is a recessive, lethal gene that kills XO flies but not normal xY male flies.


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... or 40's, so they have had time to have children, who then may carry the gene defect (50% chance to get the disease gene and 50% chance to get the ... become drastically more rare at least in the following cases: if it was lethal at young age, if the people suffering from it or at risk would choose ...

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by biohazard
Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:05 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Huntington
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Natural selection is proven wrong

Aight, let's try this one more time. Every single one of us has a genetic defect of some sort. That already explains why you can find a lot ... muscular dystrophy is a rare disease - even though it is common among lethal genetic diseases, you see people suffering from this rarely. And why ...

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by biohazard
Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:53 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

you are abusing language there is no way you can say the genes that cause cancer are not harmful and as such there being transmitted ... scale. They are not inherited from anywhere, and because they cause lethal diseases, get also eliminated by the means of natural selection. It is ...

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by biohazard
Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:56 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Re: Important unknown nanotech within humans

... to Basson’s program included lectures on converting ordinary items into lethal biological weapons. He provided samples of virulent, designer strains ... maladies like mad cow disease and scrapie are infectious rather than genetic. —Circumstance of Death: Died of a heart attack while in a hospital ...

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by vincio
Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:36 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Important unknown nanotech within humans
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GENETICS QUESTIONS! HELP NEEDED

... barking while trailing. In these dogs the allele of another independent gene produces erect ears; it is dominantver the allele for drooping ears. ... 2. Suppose that an allele, b, of a sex-linked gene is recessive and lethal. A man marries a woman who is heterozygous for this gene. If this ...

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by corluk10
Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:31 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: GENETICS QUESTIONS! HELP NEEDED
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