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Take the Barak Obama his skin is black, but he has one gene for white skin from his mom and one gene for black skin for his dad. He had a 50% chance of passing on the white gene to his daughter,

No, it's not like that. Black genes are dominant and white genes are recessive. A black and a white parent cannot produce a white child.

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Posted by willthezombie

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Member since Dec 2013

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Posted on 2/10/14 at 11:49 am to Zach

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No, it's not like that. Black genes are dominant and white genes are recessive. A black and a white parent cannot produce a white child.

actually there are codominant. That is why BO's dad is real dark and he is light skinned. If the black parent has (i.e.barak obama) had a kid with a white woman using the punnett square S=black skin and s=white skin.

Dad's genotype is Ss Mom's is ss

The four possible genotypes for the child are Ss (black), Ss(black), ss(white) and ss (white). Now since skin color is a codominate and not strictly dominant/recessive the black skin would be light skinned and the white shin would be darker. From a culture perspective you would day that the kid is afican american even though he/she has a 50% of being genotypically white.

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Posted by Revo236

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Member since Feb 2014

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Posted on 2/10/14 at 11:57 am to Zach

This thread is kind of all over the place between race, gays, abortion, ect. I think the question that you are asking is should religion get the same respect as science. The answer is no, there many different religions and many people who don't believe or just do not care enough about religion. We need to be careful with science also because even though the scientific method should keep bias out of science, it sometimes gets influenced by politics, money ect.

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