Phys Org: UNC School of Medicine researchers discovered a gene called R2d2 – Responder to meiotic drive 2 – that breaks Gregor Mendel’s century-old “law of segregation,” which states that you have an equal probability of inheriting each of two copies of every gene from both parents.
With an R2d2 gene you probably have an equal opportunity of watching Princess Leia getting boinked as to watching Yoda getting an Oscar.
I know I don’t have that gene.
So it turns out the Law of Independent Assortment skeptics might have been on to something all along. Good thing humanity hasn’t tried over the past 150 years to apply Mendelian genetics to medicine or agriculture in any pragmatic, tentative way until this particular bit of science was settled.
R2d2?? Who’s making this stuff up? It’s not like science has never been used by scamming assclowns before.
This is a joke, right?
god ain’t laffin!!!
And being a overweight glob of grease
It’s…. it’s …. it’s like a magical spell or something. Somehow the gene knows it’s the chosen one.
But seriously, have you heard the one about cold fusion?? No? Well how about DNA based on Arsenic instead of Phosphorous. No? Well how about all those “exo planets” discovered 100 light years away, you know, the ones that are very earth like. No? Well there are a hundred more AMAZING and MAGICAL science discoveries made every day. I personally have discovered the “miasma” theory of disease.
It is closely related to the C3PO gene discovered a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
Seems to me that this could be used to genetically engineer people as well. Get rid of “undesireable“ traits.
re: “that breaks Gregor Mendel’s century-old “law of segregation,” which states that you have an equal probability of inheriting each of two copies of every gene from both parents.”
Chromosomal crossover does the same thing and it was discovered in 1909. Does any one read the literature or remember High School Biology where I heard of it in the 1950s.
Dan Kurt