Thread: Elven genetics
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Old 03-07-2004, 10:51 PM   #2
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I have no idea on most of these points and have given very little thought to em to be truthful. However you stated that hair colour is often a mix... due to the fact it's controlled my multiple alleles. However, if the allele is dominant, its trait shall be dominant. Sure it often turns out that say if my father had dark hair and my mother had light hair, i'd have a mixture of the both. However, we can see that if an allele is dominant, it can cause the colour to be exactly (or only slightly different) the same... so arwen certainly could have inherited Elrond's black hair. But erm... who said that genetics would have the same behaviour in ME? hehe

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