Does Gd-Looking Parents Guarentee Gd-Looking Kids?

• hyuuga neji

  8 Apr 05, 09:21

  Originally posted by the.raven:

  no. thegood looking gene might be Dominant but the parents have heterozygous genes end up producing double recessive phenotype. then not good looking lor.

  wah... cheem ar...
• the.raven

  8 Apr 05, 09:32

  Originally posted by hyuuga neji:

  wah... cheem ar...

  O level stuff only.
• Tuatau

  8 Apr 05, 09:59

  Nothing in life is absolute or guaranteed. Shit happens.
  
  Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Subjective.
• arse-fan

  8 Apr 05, 10:27

  It will go back to the same arguement that smart parents will have smart children
  
  There is no truth in either statements
• cornyfish2000

  8 Apr 05, 10:30

  Originally posted by the.raven:

  no. thegood looking gene might be Dominant but the parents have heterozygous genes end up producing double recessive phenotype. then not good looking lor.

  heh, looks are polygenic inheritance lar, since it is determined by so many facial features, each coded by their own unique set of genes and continuous variation too. Not monogenic like got ear, no ear kinda thing.
• cornyfish2000

  8 Apr 05, 10:33

  Originally posted by arse-fan:

  It will go back to the same arguement that smart parents will have smart children
  
  There is no truth in either statements

  Tell that to the government.. otherwise why are they encouraging grads to marry each other and have as many children as possible?
• Tuatau

  8 Apr 05, 10:36

  Originally posted by arse-fan:
  [b]It will go back to the same arguement that smart parents will have smart children
  
  There is no truth in either statements

  Agreed.
  
  There is a slight difference in both statements, though. Beauty is subjective; intelligence is objective -- well, at least in the meritocratic society of Singapore it is.
• cornyfish2000

  8 Apr 05, 10:38

  So there we go, the Nature vs Nurture debate on intelligence.
• the.raven

  8 Apr 05, 10:38

  Originally posted by cornyfish2000:

  heh, looks are polygenic inheritance lar, since it is determined by so many facial features, each coded by their own unique set of genes and continuous variation too. Not monogenic like got ear, no ear kinda thing.

  I am talking in terms of the most basic what, and people already say cheem.
• Tuatau

  8 Apr 05, 10:40

  Originally posted by cornyfish2000:
  Tell that to the government.. otherwise why are they encouraging grads to marry each other and have as many children as possible?

  They can encourage, form SDU, organise campaigns, but more and more graduates are staying single.