Quote from: Harvey Birdman on February 05, 2008, 10:37:50 AM
Sonshine - that's a standard recessive gene phenomenon. Who was the monk with the peas? Mendel?
Yup, that was mendel.
Basicly, for a lot of genetic characteristics, you have 2 genes. One of each of your parrents. There are dominant genes and recesive genes.
For example, brown eyes is dominant and blue eyes is recesive. That means that if you've got 1 gene for blue eyes and 1 fro brown eyes, you get brown eyes (if you'd have 2 brown or 2 blue, you'd get that colour ofcourse).
Now imagine that a child parrents both have 1 brown and 1 blue. That means that there is 25% chance that the child get's 2 blue's and thus there's a 25% that he (or she) get's blue eyes.
