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To: SunkenCiv

Look up genetic recombination or crossover.

The chromosome 3 that you give to your daughter is not likely to be the exact one you inherited from your father or your mother, but a mix of both.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_linkage


12 posted on 08/06/2023 6:22:34 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: heartwood

As I said, the genome is overwhelmingly stable, these swaps are very tiny in relation to the total, when they occur at all.


13 posted on 08/06/2023 7:57:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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