Myths of Human Genetics (2011)
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Myths of Human Genetics (2011)
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#2Misleading students into thinking their parents can't be their bio-parents seems like a really important reason not to use fake examples of Mendelian traits.
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#3Misleading students into thinking their parents can't be their bio-parents seems like a really important reason not to use fake examples of Mendelian traits.
I swear I had a middle school science teacher who viewed this as a perk of the job.
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#4Misleading students into thinking their parents can't be their bio-parents seems like a really important reason not to use fake examples of Mendelian traits.
Just institute universal paternity testing and that can never happen.
BTW the technology exists (and have been sold for nearly 20 years) to determine paternity, sex and genetic diseases in an infant 2-6 weeks after CONCEPTION from the mother's blood.
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#5Misleading students into thinking their parents can't be their bio-parents seems like a really important reason not to use fake examples of Mendelian traits.
Just institute universal paternity testing and that can never happen. BTW the technology exists (and have been sold for nearly 20 years) to determine paternity, sex and genetic diseases in an infant 2-6 weeks after CONCEPTION from the mother's blood.
The matriarchy would never allow that.
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#6Misleading students into thinking their parents can't be their bio-parents seems like a really important reason not to use fake examples of Mendelian traits.
Just institute universal paternity testing and that can never happen. BTW the technology exists (and have been sold for nearly 20 years) to determine paternity, sex and genetic diseases in an infant 2-6 weeks after CONCEPTION from the mother's blood.
Paternity testing would force people to disclose to their kids if they had been adopted?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just institute universal paternity testing and that can never happen. BTW the technology exists (and have been sold for nearly 20 years) to determine paternity, sex and genetic diseases in an infant 2-6 weeks after CONCEPTION from the mother's blood.
Paternity testing would force people to disclose to their kids if they had been adopted?
This isn't necessarily a bad thing—studies[1] have shown that adoption discovery between birth and two years of age may increase life satisfaction and decrease stress.
The same applies to other cases where parents aren't genetically related to their children (i.e., donor egg and/or sperm).
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/adoption-...
Re: Myths of Human Genetics (2011)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just institute universal paternity testing and that can never happen. BTW the technology exists (and have been sold for nearly 20 years) to determine paternity, sex and genetic diseases in an infant 2-6 weeks after CONCEPTION from the mother's blood.
Paternity testing would force people to disclose to their kids if they had been adopted?
If I'm understanding you correctly, are you asking whether parents are required to tell their adoptive children that they are adopted? In the US definitely not, and I think that's probably the case most places.
Whether or not the parents had a paternity test performed wouldn't have any bearing on it.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Paternity testing would force people to disclose to their kids if they had been adopted?
If I'm understanding you correctly, are you asking whether parents are required to tell their adoptive children that they are adopted? In the US definitely not, and I think that's probably the case most places. Whether or not the parents had a paternity test performed wouldn't have any bearing on it.
It was a rhetorical question, sorry :) It sounded like they were saying that the only cause of kids being confused about their biological parents was infidelity.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I'm understanding you correctly, are you asking whether parents are required to tell their adoptive children that they are adopted? In the US definitely not, and I think that's probably the case most places. Whether or not the parents had a paternity test performed wouldn't have any bearing on it.
It was a rhetorical question, sorry :) It sounded like they were saying that the only cause of kids being confused about their biological parents was infidelity.
Ah, got it.