Re: Next Lesson

["Gary McCallister" <mccallis@xxxx>]

Mendelian assortment simply refers to the predictions made by Mendel about how 
certain dominant allelles are inherited. Tall peas crossed with short peas 
give a 1:2:1 assortment of geneotypes etc. If we could keep track of how many 
times a straight mouth occured with square noses etc. we could seeif 
assortment was occuring in the same manner as with genes. I am not sure how to 
program dominance and recessive traits in MW.

>>> dajoy@xxxx 10/11/01 06:32PM >>>
On 11 Oct 2001, at 14:58, Gary McCallister wrote:

> It would also
> be valuable to a biologist to be able to keep track of the
> varios offspring in some way so we could test the mendelian
> assortment taking place. Anyway, what do you all suggest?
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I have some interest in genetic algorithms. And I have implemented some 
using=20
Logo.

What is the mendelian assortment?

Is it true that if you put a 20 families in a starship, in a trip to some=20
distant star, for say, 500 years, the intelligence traits of their 
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would be noticeably reduced?


Daniel





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