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Ginger Hair / Curly Hair == Genetic Defect??
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| UglyDave |
saomeone told me this a few days ago...
anyone else heard this? |
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| twisted420 |
| some people with ginger hair are albino arnt they...they have curly ing hair |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by UglyDave
saomeone told me this a few days ago...
anyone else heard this? |
It was either that or straight hair was a genetic defect... Forgot what I learned about in General Bio.
EDIT: Now that I've actually TRIED to remember what I learned, I remember it being more of a mutation than anything. So the answer is YES if the question is whether it was/is a GENETIC MUTATION. |
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| UglyDave |
| my hair's straight + fair NOT ginger |
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| spec |
| quote: | Originally posted by UglyDave
saomeone told me this a few days ago...
anyone else heard this? |
In the past week it seems you are fat, have genital warts and have ginger hair.
Your name appears well suited. |
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| DJAntSmith |
Ginger hair isn't a mutation. Its the weakest gene that controls the colour of yor hair. You need a ginger gene from your father and mother to have ginger hair. If you get a black gene from your father and a ginger one from your mother, you would have black hair because every other gene is stronger than the one that controls ginger.
example
Mum hair colour gene passed on: Ginger
Dad hair colour gene passed on: Ginger
Resulting pair of genes: Ginger & Ginger = Ginger Hair
Mum hair colour gene passed on: Blonde
Dad hair colour gene passed on: Ginger
Resulting pair of genes: Blonde & Ginger = Blonde Hair
Mum hair colour gene passed on: Ginger
Dad hair colour gene passed on: Black
Resulting pair of genes: Ginger & Black = Black Hair
This is aslo the reason that you can have a ginger haired child even though your own hair colour may not be ginger.
Also I hate people who call it "Strawberry Blonde"! |
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| tu_face |
evolution is caused by genetic 'defects'
without genetic defects we would still have an apes nose
without genetic defects we would still be very very hairy
without genetic defects we would still be on all four's
maybe curly haired gingers are the next evolutionary step :nervous: :p |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by tu_face
evolution is caused by genetic 'defects'
without genetic defects we would still have an apes nose
without genetic defects we would still be very very hairy
without genetic defects we would still be on all four's
maybe curly haired gingers are the next evolutionary step :nervous: :p |
So would "defect" and "mutation" basically mean the same thing when speaking about evolution? |
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| tu_face |
| yes. this would make curly gingers mutants ;) |
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| chojin |
mates parents, neither of them are ginger, or AS ginger as him.
are you sure about both of them having to be ginger :/ |
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| tu_face |
| quote: | Originally posted by chojin
mates parents, neither of them are ginger, or AS ginger as him.
are you sure about both of them having to be ginger :/ |
they dont have to be ginger, and i'm afraid that dj ant smith is wrong. in a gene, there are aleles. these can be recessive or dominant.
a mother can have black hair, a father can have blonde hair, both can have the recessive alele for ginger hair and thus their child will have a chance of being ginger (can't remember the exact ratios). granted, they would be more likely to have black hair as that alele is recessive, but there is still a chance.
its the same for all genetic differences, for example cistic fibrosis. |
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| DJAntSmith |
| quote: | Originally posted by tu_face
they dont have to be ginger, and i'm afraid that dj ant smith is wrong. in a gene, there are aleles. these can be recessive or dominant.
a mother can have black hair, a father can have blonde hair, both can have the recessive alele for ginger hair and thus their child will have a chance of being ginger (can't remember the exact ratios). granted, they would be more likely to have black hair as that alele is recessive, but there is still a chance.
its the same for all genetic differences, for example cistic fibrosis. |
Why was i wrong?
what i said was that both parents would have to pass on a ginger gene for the child to have ginger hair. I never said they had to have ginger hair. You can have a complete family line with no ginger hair but each family member may contain 1 ginger gene out of their pair. |
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