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Heredity
Heredity
Hank: So, I have this brother, John, you may have heard of him.
Hank: And as it happens, John and I have the exact same parents.
John: Yeah, Mom and Dad Green.
Hank: And since we have the same parents, it's to be expected that John and I would have similar physical characteristics because the source of our DNA is exactly the same.
John: Hank and I share some genes, but no one knew anything about chromosomes or DNA until the middle of the 20th century, and people have been noticing that brothers tend to look alike since people started noticing stuff, or whatever.
Hank: That was very scientific, John.
John: I will remind you that I am doing you a favor.
(upbeat music with whistling) Hank: Heredity, it's basically just the passing on of genetic traits from parents to offspring; and like John said, the study of heredity is ancient, although, the first ideas about how the goods were passed on from parents to kids were really, really, really, really, really, really wrong.
For instance, the concept that people were working with for nearly 2,000 years came from Aristotle, who suggested that we are each a mixture of our parents' traits, with the father supplying the life-force to the new human, and the mother supplying the building blocks to put it all together.
Aristotle also thought that semen was highly-purified menstrual blood, which is why we still refer to blood lines when we're talking about heredity.
Anyways, since somebody had a better idea since nobody really wanted to tangle with Aristotle, for hundreds of years everybody just assumed that our parents' traits just sort of blended together in us.
Like, if a black squirrel and a white squirrel fell in love and decided to start a family together, their offspring would be grey.
The first person to really start studying and thinking about heredity in a modern way was this Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel, and Mendel demonstrated that inheritance followed particular patterns.
In the mid-1800s, Mendel spent sort of an unhealthy amount of time grubbing around in his garden with a bunch of pea plants, and through a series of experiments crossing the pea plants and seeing which traits got passed on and which didn't, he came up with a frame work for understanding how traits actually get passed from one generation to another.
So, to talk about classical genetics, which includes Mendel's ideas about how traits get passed along from parents to children, kinda have to simplify the crap out of genetics. I hope you don't mind.
So, we've all got chromosomes, which are the form that our DNA takes in order to get passed on from parent to child.
Human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
Now, a gene is a section of DNA in a specific location on a chromosome that contains information that determines a trait.
Of course, the vast majority of the time, a physical trait is a reflection of a bunch of different genes working together, which makes this all very confusing, and when this happens it's called a polygenic trait. Polygenic. Many genes.
And then again, sometimes a single gene can influence how multiple traits are going to be expressed, and these genes are called pleiotropic.
However, some, very few, but some, single traits are decided by a single gene, like the color of pea flowers, for example, which is what Mendel studied when he discovered all of this stuff.
And when that happens, in Mendel's honor, we call that a Mendelian trait.
There are a couple examples of Mendelian traits in humans, one of them being the relative wetness or dryness of your ear wax.
So, there is just 1 gene that determines the consistency of your ear wax, and that gene is located at the very same spot on each person's chromosome, right here: chromosome 16.
However, there is 1 version of this gene, or allele, that says the wax is going to be wet, and there's another allele that says the wax is going to be dry.
You might be asking yourself what the difference is between these 2 things, and I'm glad you asked because we actually know the answer to that question.
Among the many amino acids that make up this particular gene sequence, there is one exact slot where they are different If the amino acid is glycine in that slot, you're gonna have wet ear wax, but if it's arginine, it's dry.
Now, comes the question of how you get what you get from your parents.
In most animals, basically, any cell in the body that isn't a sperm or an egg, these are called somatic cells, are diploid, meaning that there are 2 sets of chromosomes, 1 inherited from each of your parents.
So, you get 1 ear wax determining allele from your mom, and 1 from your dad; and I should mention, that the reason for this is that gametes, or sex cells, senor sperm and madame egg, are haploid cells, meaning that they only have 1 set of chromosomes.
Again for emphasis, non-sex cells are called somatic cells and they are diploid, sex cells are called gametes and they are haploid.
This makes a lot of sense because a sperm or an egg has very specific motivation, they're seriously hoping to score, and if they do, they plan to join with a complimentary haploid cell that has the other pair of chromosomes they're going to need to make a new human, or buffalo, or squid, or whatever.
Also, just so you know, some plants have polyploid cells, which means that they more than 2 sets of chromosomes in each cell, which isn't better or anything, it's just how they do.
But anyway, the point of this all is that we inherit 1 version of the ear wax gene from each of our parents. So, back to ear wax.
So, let's just say that your mom gives you a wet ear wax allele, and your dad gives you a dry ear wax allele; good Lord, your dad has horribly ugly ears.
Anyway, since your parents have 2 alleles, each for 1 gene inherited from each of their parents, the one passed along to you is entirely random.
So, a lot of what Mendel discovered is that when there are 2 alleles that decide the outcome of a specific trait, one of these alleles could be dominant and the other one recessive.
Dominance is the relationship between alleles, in which 1 allele masks, or totally suppresses the expression of another allele.
So, back to ear wax, 'cause I know we all love talking about it so much, it turns out that mom's wet ear wax allele is dominant, which is why she gets a big W and dad's dry ear wax allele is recessive, which is why he has to be a little W.
John: Go mom!
Hank: Oh! You're back?
Anyway, mom's allele is dominant, an that settles it, right?
That we're gonna have wet ear wax.
John: Uh, something about the way that you said that tells me it's not that easy.
Hank: Oh, you are so much smarter than you look.
It is indeed not that easy.
So, just because an allele is recessive doesn't mean that it's less common and all of your genetic material than the dominant allele, which leads us to the assumption, the correct assumption, that there's something else going on here.
John: I'm definitely getting that vibe from you.
Hank: So, it has to do with mom and dad's parent's, because everybody inherits 2 alleles from their parents.
Mom got 1 from nanny and 1 from papa, and let's just say that mom got a little W from nanny, and a big W allele from papa.
That means that mom's genotype, or genetic makeup, when it comes to that single trait, is heterozygous, which means that she inherited 2 different versions of the same gene from each of her parents.
Dad, on the other hand, has a homozygote.
John: Let me guess, that means he had 2 of the same allele, either a little W or a big W, inherited from both grandma and grandpa?
Hank: Right, and in order for this to all work out the way that I want it to, let's just say that both grandma and grandpa would have passed little W's down to dad, making his genotype homozygous recessive for this gene.
John: Okay, so I'm keeping score in my head right now, and according to my calculations, mom is a big W, little W, and dad is a little W, little W.
Hank: And now, we're gonna try to figure out what our ear wax phenotype is, and phenotype is what's expressed physically, or in this case, what you'd see if you looked into our ears.
John: All right, so we're gonna do like a Punnett square or anything?
This is why I do history; if we're doing Punnett squares, I'm leaving.
Hank: But, I was just gonna start to talk about people again.
So, Reginald C. Punnett, who was a total Gregor Mendel fanboy, invented the Punnett square as a way to diagram the outcome of a particular crossbreeding experiment; and a really simple one looks like this.
So, let's put mom on the side here, and give her a big W and a little W; and let's put dad on the top, and he gets 2 little W's.
So, if you fill this in, looks like there's a 50/50 chance that any child of this mating will homozygous or heterozygous.
And as for our phenotype, shakes out the same way, John and I both have a 50% chance of having wet ear wax, a 50% chance of having dry ear wax.
So, I just had to go and call John because now he's not participating, 'cause he doesn't like Punnett squares, and it turns out that he has wet ear wax, I also have wet ear wax, which, you know, is not that unlikely, considering that our parents were homozygous and heterozygous.
This, uh, may explain the odor of our bathroom when we were growing up, because it turns out that there's a correlation between wet ear wax and body odor, because ear wax and arm pit sweat are produced by the same type of gland.
Because this 1 gene has an affect on multiple traits or phenotypes, it's an example of a pleiotropic gene; because the gene affects both how wet your ear wax is and how much you stink.
One more thing you might find interesting, sex-linked inheritance.
So, we've got 23 chromosomes, 22 pairs are autosomes, or non-sex chromosomes, and 1 pair, the 23rd pair, to be exact, is a sex chromosome.
At hat 23rd pair, women have 2 full-length chromosome, or XX, and men have 1 X chromosome that they inherited from their mom, and this 1 little short, puny, shriveled chromosome that we call Y, which is why men are XY.
So, certain genetic traits are linked to a person's sex, and are passed on through the sex chromosomes.
Since dudes don't have 2 full chromosomes on pair 23, there may be recessive alleles on the X that they inherited from their mom that will get expressed since there's not any information on the Y chromosome to provide the possibility for a dominant allele counteracting that specific trait. Take, for instance, balding.
Women rarely go bald in their youth, like some men do, because it's caused by a recessive allele located in a gene on the X chromosome; so, it's rare that women get 2 recessive alleles, but men need just 1 recessive allele and go baldy bald!
That allele is on their X chromosome, which they got from mom.
But, was mom bald? Probably not.
And where did mom get that allele on her X chromosome?
Either from her dad or her mom.
So, if you're bald, you can go ahead and blame it on your maternal grandmother, or your maternal maternal great grandfather, or your maternal maternal maternal great great grandfather, who probably went bald before he was 30.
So, genetics, you guys, resistance is futile.
Thanks to my brother, John, for sharing his personal genetic information with us and also, his face and voice and all of that stuff.
That was very nice, and think of us next time you swab out your ears; actually, they say that you really shouldn't do that because you have ear wax for a reason and you might poke your brain, or something.
Okay, that's the last time I'm mentioning ear wax.
Hank: And since we have the same parents, it's to be expected that John and I would have similar physical characteristics because the source of our DNA is exactly the same.발음듣기
John: Hank and I share some genes, but no one knew anything about chromosomes or DNA until the middle of the 20th century, and people have been noticing that brothers tend to look alike since people started noticing stuff, or whatever.발음듣기
(upbeat music with whistling) Hank: Heredity, it's basically just the passing on of genetic traits from parents to offspring; and like John said, the study of heredity is ancient, although, the first ideas about how the goods were passed on from parents to kids were really, really, really, really, really, really wrong.발음듣기
For instance, the concept that people were working with for nearly 2,000 years came from Aristotle, who suggested that we are each a mixture of our parents' traits, with the father supplying the life-force to the new human, and the mother supplying the building blocks to put it all together.발음듣기
Aristotle also thought that semen was highly-purified menstrual blood, which is why we still refer to blood lines when we're talking about heredity.발음듣기
Anyways, since somebody had a better idea since nobody really wanted to tangle with Aristotle, for hundreds of years everybody just assumed that our parents' traits just sort of blended together in us.발음듣기
Like, if a black squirrel and a white squirrel fell in love and decided to start a family together, their offspring would be grey.발음듣기
The first person to really start studying and thinking about heredity in a modern way was this Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel, and Mendel demonstrated that inheritance followed particular patterns.발음듣기
In the mid-1800s, Mendel spent sort of an unhealthy amount of time grubbing around in his garden with a bunch of pea plants, and through a series of experiments crossing the pea plants and seeing which traits got passed on and which didn't, he came up with a frame work for understanding how traits actually get passed from one generation to another.발음듣기
So, to talk about classical genetics, which includes Mendel's ideas about how traits get passed along from parents to children, kinda have to simplify the crap out of genetics. I hope you don't mind.발음듣기
So, we've all got chromosomes, which are the form that our DNA takes in order to get passed on from parent to child.발음듣기
Now, a gene is a section of DNA in a specific location on a chromosome that contains information that determines a trait.발음듣기
Of course, the vast majority of the time, a physical trait is a reflection of a bunch of different genes working together, which makes this all very confusing, and when this happens it's called a polygenic trait. Polygenic. Many genes.발음듣기
And then again, sometimes a single gene can influence how multiple traits are going to be expressed, and these genes are called pleiotropic.발음듣기
However, some, very few, but some, single traits are decided by a single gene, like the color of pea flowers, for example, which is what Mendel studied when he discovered all of this stuff.발음듣기
There are a couple examples of Mendelian traits in humans, one of them being the relative wetness or dryness of your ear wax.발음듣기
So, there is just 1 gene that determines the consistency of your ear wax, and that gene is located at the very same spot on each person's chromosome, right here: chromosome 16.발음듣기
However, there is 1 version of this gene, or allele, that says the wax is going to be wet, and there's another allele that says the wax is going to be dry.발음듣기
You might be asking yourself what the difference is between these 2 things, and I'm glad you asked because we actually know the answer to that question.발음듣기
Among the many amino acids that make up this particular gene sequence, there is one exact slot where they are different If the amino acid is glycine in that slot, you're gonna have wet ear wax, but if it's arginine, it's dry.발음듣기
In most animals, basically, any cell in the body that isn't a sperm or an egg, these are called somatic cells, are diploid, meaning that there are 2 sets of chromosomes, 1 inherited from each of your parents.발음듣기
So, you get 1 ear wax determining allele from your mom, and 1 from your dad; and I should mention, that the reason for this is that gametes, or sex cells, senor sperm and madame egg, are haploid cells, meaning that they only have 1 set of chromosomes.발음듣기
Again for emphasis, non-sex cells are called somatic cells and they are diploid, sex cells are called gametes and they are haploid.발음듣기
This makes a lot of sense because a sperm or an egg has very specific motivation, they're seriously hoping to score, and if they do, they plan to join with a complimentary haploid cell that has the other pair of chromosomes they're going to need to make a new human, or buffalo, or squid, or whatever.발음듣기
Also, just so you know, some plants have polyploid cells, which means that they more than 2 sets of chromosomes in each cell, which isn't better or anything, it's just how they do.발음듣기
But anyway, the point of this all is that we inherit 1 version of the ear wax gene from each of our parents. So, back to ear wax.발음듣기
So, let's just say that your mom gives you a wet ear wax allele, and your dad gives you a dry ear wax allele; good Lord, your dad has horribly ugly ears.발음듣기
Anyway, since your parents have 2 alleles, each for 1 gene inherited from each of their parents, the one passed along to you is entirely random.발음듣기
So, a lot of what Mendel discovered is that when there are 2 alleles that decide the outcome of a specific trait, one of these alleles could be dominant and the other one recessive.발음듣기
Dominance is the relationship between alleles, in which 1 allele masks, or totally suppresses the expression of another allele.발음듣기
So, back to ear wax, 'cause I know we all love talking about it so much, it turns out that mom's wet ear wax allele is dominant, which is why she gets a big W and dad's dry ear wax allele is recessive, which is why he has to be a little W.발음듣기
So, just because an allele is recessive doesn't mean that it's less common and all of your genetic material than the dominant allele, which leads us to the assumption, the correct assumption, that there's something else going on here.발음듣기
Hank: So, it has to do with mom and dad's parent's, because everybody inherits 2 alleles from their parents.발음듣기
Mom got 1 from nanny and 1 from papa, and let's just say that mom got a little W from nanny, and a big W allele from papa.발음듣기
That means that mom's genotype, or genetic makeup, when it comes to that single trait, is heterozygous, which means that she inherited 2 different versions of the same gene from each of her parents.발음듣기
John: Let me guess, that means he had 2 of the same allele, either a little W or a big W, inherited from both grandma and grandpa?발음듣기
Hank: Right, and in order for this to all work out the way that I want it to, let's just say that both grandma and grandpa would have passed little W's down to dad, making his genotype homozygous recessive for this gene.발음듣기
John: Okay, so I'm keeping score in my head right now, and according to my calculations, mom is a big W, little W, and dad is a little W, little W.발음듣기
Hank: And now, we're gonna try to figure out what our ear wax phenotype is, and phenotype is what's expressed physically, or in this case, what you'd see if you looked into our ears.발음듣기
So, Reginald C. Punnett, who was a total Gregor Mendel fanboy, invented the Punnett square as a way to diagram the outcome of a particular crossbreeding experiment; and a really simple one looks like this.발음듣기
So, let's put mom on the side here, and give her a big W and a little W; and let's put dad on the top, and he gets 2 little W's.발음듣기
So, if you fill this in, looks like there's a 50/50 chance that any child of this mating will homozygous or heterozygous.발음듣기
And as for our phenotype, shakes out the same way, John and I both have a 50% chance of having wet ear wax, a 50% chance of having dry ear wax.발음듣기
So, I just had to go and call John because now he's not participating, 'cause he doesn't like Punnett squares, and it turns out that he has wet ear wax, I also have wet ear wax, which, you know, is not that unlikely, considering that our parents were homozygous and heterozygous.발음듣기
This, uh, may explain the odor of our bathroom when we were growing up, because it turns out that there's a correlation between wet ear wax and body odor, because ear wax and arm pit sweat are produced by the same type of gland.발음듣기
Because this 1 gene has an affect on multiple traits or phenotypes, it's an example of a pleiotropic gene; because the gene affects both how wet your ear wax is and how much you stink.발음듣기
So, we've got 23 chromosomes, 22 pairs are autosomes, or non-sex chromosomes, and 1 pair, the 23rd pair, to be exact, is a sex chromosome.발음듣기
At hat 23rd pair, women have 2 full-length chromosome, or XX, and men have 1 X chromosome that they inherited from their mom, and this 1 little short, puny, shriveled chromosome that we call Y, which is why men are XY.발음듣기
So, certain genetic traits are linked to a person's sex, and are passed on through the sex chromosomes.발음듣기
Since dudes don't have 2 full chromosomes on pair 23, there may be recessive alleles on the X that they inherited from their mom that will get expressed since there's not any information on the Y chromosome to provide the possibility for a dominant allele counteracting that specific trait. Take, for instance, balding.발음듣기
Women rarely go bald in their youth, like some men do, because it's caused by a recessive allele located in a gene on the X chromosome; so, it's rare that women get 2 recessive alleles, but men need just 1 recessive allele and go baldy bald!발음듣기
So, if you're bald, you can go ahead and blame it on your maternal grandmother, or your maternal maternal great grandfather, or your maternal maternal maternal great great grandfather, who probably went bald before he was 30.발음듣기
Thanks to my brother, John, for sharing his personal genetic information with us and also, his face and voice and all of that stuff.발음듣기
That was very nice, and think of us next time you swab out your ears; actually, they say that you really shouldn't do that because you have ear wax for a reason and you might poke your brain, or something.발음듣기
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