EP 44 · 2:15

Questions of inheritance and fatherhood

From New Rules For Heredity (Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Epigenetics)

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2:15First Principles.

2:31So, I was recently blessed with my first child and questions of inheritance are very forward in my mind, right? um questions that every person of color asks like how dark is the baby going to be, you know, among other things like what color is are his eyes going to be? Is he going to be an athlete? But, you know, that's one of the big ones. Um if anyone's out there who's brown, they know they know what I'm talking about. And so, for most of the traits that are out there, you can use rules that were established 160 years ago by this guy called Gregor Mandel. And these traits follow Mandelian laws of inheritance. This is the stuff that you learn in like

3:11AP Bio. If you ever took AP bio in high school, the rules are pretty simple and we're going to go over them. There's like these dominant genes, recessive genes, some and by and large those rules work,

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    New Rules For Heredity (Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Epigenetics)

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