Re: Alleles
April Dorsey-Tyler (adorsey@netusa1.net)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:28:12 -0600
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> From: Farrell Till <jftill@midwest.net>
> To: errancy@infidels.org
> Subject: Alleles
> Date: Friday, January 10, 1997 1:08 AM
>
> DAR
> For the eight people on the Ark, sixteen alleles can be
> represented.
>
> TILL
> The number wouldn't even be as high as 16, would it? Noah and his wife,
if
> both were heterozygous, could have had four alleles, but their sons would
> all have had combinations of the four alleles that their parents had.
Then,
> if we assume that the wives of Noah's sons were all three heterozygous,
this
> would have added only six more alleles to the pool. So altogether there
> would have been only 10 alleles aboard the ark.
>
> Can someone with a background in biology tell us if this is a correct
> conclusion? April, are you there?
>
Present!
The maximum number would be ten, if none of the sons' genes carried
mutations. It probably would be less than 10, since many genes probably
don't have 10 versions in one species.
April
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