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Genes and siblings
Category: Science > Biology Asked by: revenuegirl-ga List Price: $10.00 |
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09 Nov 2005 16:29 PST
Expires: 09 Dec 2005 16:29 PST Question ID: 591234 |
Given that half a child's genes are from his/her mother and half from his/her father, is it theoretically possible for offspring of the same parents to have completely different genes? What i mean is, say the mother's genes are A and B, and the father's C and D, can one child be A+C and another B+D? |
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Re: Genes and siblings
From: anirbanrchoudhury-ga on 09 Nov 2005 21:44 PST |
Well as per my understanding goes the siblings and parents genetic structures have similarity.The siblings inherit the genetic structurs of their parents. Let me explain it in this way : Suppose mothers genetic struture is AB and fathers is CD Siblings inherit the structure AC or AD or BC or BD. That means that the siblings have a different genetic structure between themselves but linked to the same root.That is if the two sibling's genetics are analysed and if one of their parents genetic structure is known it can be found out if they are really from same origin i.e. both of them have atleast one common parent.The trace can go deep down to analysis of DNA and it will be found that at least one DNA of the siblings match if they are really siblings. Please also note that the new structures in sibling are formed by a process called mutation ( genetic mutation). Useful link : http://www.synapses.co.uk/genetics/repflow.html http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/info=mutations_and_disorders/show/mutations_cause_disease |
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Re: Genes and siblings
From: filicium-ga on 10 Nov 2005 01:57 PST |
In theory it is possible that two siblings have completely different sets of chromosomes. However, given that the chance for any combination of a single chromosome pair is 1:4, and that humans have 23 chromosomes, the probabilities are very low. In addition applies that not all genetic information is transfered by nuclear chromosomes, and that mutation does occur. |
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Re: Genes and siblings
From: mikewa-ga on 10 Nov 2005 05:01 PST |
The quick answer is it isn't going to happen, though it is not theoretically impossible. Each parent has 23 pairs of chromosomes. The pairs are similar, but not identical, and in the formation of egg or sperm one of each pair is picked at random. The odds of two eggs getting different copies of a given chromosome is 1/2: so the odds that they get all 23 different is 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2..........23 times, or about 1 in 8,000,000. The odds that two sperm also contain all different picks is likewise 1, in 8,000,000. The chances of those two meeting is 1 in 64,000,000,000,000. In other words, if every person on earth had come from the same two parents it is still virtually impossible that two people would have receievd all different (or all the same)genes. In reality the odds are MUCH worse. In forming eggs and sperm the pairs of chromosomes randomly exchange some of their genes, which has the effect of making the problem act as if there were over a hundred pairs, rather than 23, so the numbers go up to only one in 10^30 egg or sperm being all the same, or different and only one in 10^60 people having all the same or different genes. |
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Re: Genes and siblings
From: wizard4u-ga on 24 Nov 2005 04:20 PST |
NEVER ANY CHOICE AT ALL. I feel the way you framed the question itself is wrong. Lets see it here? Parents father and mother have most of the genes same but differ only in few genes compared to the whole number of genes a human being is composed of. That is what differentiates a female from male. So if u take half of the genes from mother and half from father and form a sibling, she/he would never have all different genes . Because the more than 50% of genes in male and female are similar so u cannot expect to construct an offspring by taking genes from mother which are not present in father. A LAYMANS EXAMPLE Suppose you have two buckets marked as A and other as B. The bucket A has 60 red balls and 40 balls different coloured The bucket B has 60 red balls and 40 balls different coloured. So if I ask u to take 100 balls, 50 from each. Can u expect to have all the 100 balls differently? NEVER OK I think this would solve your question I did not go into details, as I don?t know your background. But it?s a good question if you?re not from biology. Comments are most welcome A NOTE: Actually the difference between male and human genome is 3% only that is 97% is same. I took its as 60% just to make it simple. |
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