Subject: Re: [FFML][IDEA] Just something I've been kicking around
From: Miashara
Date: 9/27/1999, 8:24 PM
To: FFML


Actually, the gene-mappings for eye color are much more complicated than
they are usually protrayed as in High School Biology. The only real
instances in which the Punitt's square applies to eye color are with brown
and blue eyes. If you start mixing greens in (or any of the other, rarer
colors) things get *complicated* fast. Essentially, (as I understand it)
Blue is the 'weakest' recessive (i.e. you have to be homozygous to have blue
eyes) and Brown is the strongest dominant. But a Brown-Green mix can be
either brown or green, depending on other factors.

A more in-depth treatise is a matter for biology texts and/or private mail,
if you're *really* interested. As a matter for determining parentage,
however, I agree with another list member in asserting that a blood test is
a *lot* more reliable, even for the simplest of blood typing.

Morpheus the Shaper
http://milamber.home.mindspring.com

Of course, if you want, this could be perfect. Akane/whoever assumes
that because of the eyes, Ranma must be adopted, all hell breaks loose.
It could only be afterwards that everyone finds out it's a load of crap
or she could be wrong. Hell, she might be right.

Miashara