[Southack]

"That's easy to answer. The original single individual does not have the trait. After many generations, some of the descendents do have the trait. It is easy to demonstrate that the colony starts with one individual. It is easy to demonstrate that the resulting colony has variation."

Easy?! ...And all this time I was under the impression that some genetic traits were recessive. That whole "you'll be bald if your maternal uncle was bald" thing must be out of date...

[js1138]

Explain to us how recessive traits work in bacteria.

[WildTurkey]

Easy?! ...And all this time I was under the impression that some genetic traits were recessive.

I think you are a little recessive when it comes to providing the results (probabilities) of your mathematical calculation.

[Junior]

Recessive traits come to the fore in sexually-reproducing critters. Bacteria ain't them.

[VadeRetro]

And all this time I was under the impression that some genetic traits were recessive. That whole "you'll be bald if your maternal uncle was bald" thing must be out of date...

The dominant-recessive thing? That's for sexual species with specific X and Y sex chromosomes.

Bacteria typically have one ring-shaped chromosome, one strand of DNA, one copy of any gene at a given locus, and damn little "junk" to slow down reproduction. Hello? They reproduce asexually without any recombination of mama and papa genes.

People have been trying to tell you for years now that your dumb-butt strawman models are biologically misinformed. If you had any integrity, you would admit that now.

But if you had any integrity, you wouldn't be Southack.