When your parents conceive you, you get 23 chromosomes from each parent. But what has me stumped is whether or not it is possible that a sperm or an egg could individually contain MORE of one parent's code than the other's? Could, say, 18 of the genes in a SPERM CELL or EGG come from your mother, and then only 5 from your father?
For instance, if your father is half indian/half white and your mother is white, could you still get MORE indian genes than white genes from your father and thus be MORE than a 1/4 indian? Or do our sperm and egg cells each contain split amount of genes from our parents?
2007-09-26
06:21:47
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Josh
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