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To: mas cerveza por favor
Recessive genes are not an example of evolution.

A recessive gene effects phenotype - it has no change in the allele frequency of the population.

Evolution is a change in the DNA of a population.

Hiding the recessive gene for blue eyes behind a gene for brown eyes is mixing and matching those alleles - it changes nothing as far as their prevalence within the population.

Your understanding of the very basics of biology is completely lacking.

77 posted on 11/29/2011 3:00:41 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream

No. If an environmental change made blue eyes disadvantageous to survival and reproduction, that population would gradually “evolve” to possess DNA for brown eyes only.


79 posted on 11/29/2011 3:09:41 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
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