At 12:32 PM 9/9/99 -0400, Jim Fete wrote:
>..AND most mothers will pass along over three TONS of guilt throughout her
>child's life!
>>Nicholas Landau <nlandau at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote in message
>news:7r4ios$9jq$1 at er6.rutgers.edu...>> "HoneyCarmel" <HoneyCarmel at worldnet.att.net> writes:
>>>> >Does anyone know if the blood line of children have anything to do with
>the
>> >woman? Or is it determined only by the man to the male children?
>> >--
>> >The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
>> > -- Florence Griffith Joyner
>>>> What do you mean by "blood line?"
>>>> The term generally refers to someone's familial relationship, which
>> is decided by society, and not by biology. In my society (USA) you
>> are considered a member of both your mother's family and your father's
>> family.
>>>> If you are asking about the inheritance of genes, that is a different
>> matter. Human inherit about half of their genetic material from each
>> parent. You may be surprised to learn that men get slightly more
>> genetic material from their mothers than from their fathers. This is
>> because men pass a short "Y" chromosome to their sons, which has little
>> information. Women instead pass a much, much larger "X" chromosome
>> to their sons and their daughters.
And we shouldn't forget the little organelle called the mitochondrion that
we get from our Moms.
(BTW, we are still learning that there is more to the Y than classically
surmised ;> )
>>>> If by "blood line" you mean blood type, it is determined by a combination
>> of your mother and father's genes. The system is slighly complicated,
>> involving three alleles at a given locus. If you are really curious
>> about blood-type then e-mail me and I will send a better explaination.
>>>> This what you wanted to know?
>>>>
Dr. Hiranya Sankar Roychowdhury
GENE LAB/ EPPWS
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Ph. (505) 646-5785
hroychow at nmsu.edu
