Questions tagged [genetics]
The science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.
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Are Africans and other ethnic groups more genetically different than dogs and coyotes?
While scrolling through twitter, I came across this image being shared around by certain right wing accounts, as well as forums and websites relating to eugenics. It makes the claim that populations ...
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Are pigs effective intermediate hosts of new viruses, due to being susceptible to human and avian influenza viruses?
I've read the claim that pigs are "melting pot of flu viruses" on a few places on the Internet, some of them not apparently related to veganism or vegetarianism.
For example, Swine influenza ...
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Are private paternity tests illegal in France?
Wikipedia writes
DNA paternity testing is solely performed on decision of a judge in case of a judiciary procedure in order either to establish or contest paternity or to obtain or deny child support....
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Is The Bell Curve really refuted? [closed]
The Bell Curve is a controversial book about IQ and, in a broad sense of the expression, success in life from 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
In this Wikipedia article, in the ...
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Can the Bajau people stay underwater for as long as 13 minutes?
National Geographic 4/2018: 'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving claims:
But a group of people called the Bajau takes free diving to the extreme, staying underwater for ...
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Is dandruff an indicator of an "unhealthy scalp?" Can a shampoo cure the underlying problem?
In this video (sponsored by Head and Shoulders) by Veritasium entitled "What Actually Causes Dandruff?", you can hear Dr. Jim Schwartz a Research Fellow at Head & Shoulders say:
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Did a 'Black History Month website' call white people ‘genetically defective descendants of albino mutants’?
Telegraph.co.uk reports that 'A Black History Month website' has made claims such as :
[white people are the] genetically defective descendants of albino mutants
[white man can] “fantasise that he ...
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Did BGI genetically test Uyghurs in Xinjiang?
In July of last year the U.S. Commerce Department publicly accused subsidiaries of BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute) of genetically testing Uyghurs in Xinjiang as part of a campaign of ...
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Is an egalitarian inclination largely genetically determined?
A 2017 study titled A Genetic Basis of Economic Egalitarianism
seems to have concluded that:
We use Minnesota Twin Study data from 2008, collected from samples of monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs ...
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Are crocodiles more closely related to birds than lizards and snakes?
In this video Owl, The Best Pet Reptile? you can hear Clint say,
Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards and snakes.
Is this claim true?
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Do the hemoglobin genotypes of a couple affect whether their offspring will get Sickle Cell Disease?
I just read this (currently unanswered) Quora quesion:
What should I do? After seven years in a relationship, I just find out that our genotype is AS.
Since I never heard of this before I googled ...
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Have more than a million people had their whole genomes sequenced by the end of 2018?
The news article https://www.wired.com/story/whole-genome-sequencing-cost-200-dollars/ (mirror) published on 2018-11-18 claims that
Today, slightly more than a million people have had their whole ...
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Do only ~2.4% of participants in large-scale genetic studies have African ancestry?
From a February 18 23andMe tweet:
Only about 2.4% of participants included in large-scale genetic studies have African ancestry.
Is this claim true?
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Is it possible have a cell fusion by just injecting human sperm to an unfertilized chicken egg?
I stumbled upon these video documentation titled 'Humonculus' in Youtube (I know Youtube is not reliable source, but the video to me looks legit and well video documented) by channel named Planet ...
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Fewer shared immune genes in a couple correlate with (or even cause) more female orgasms?
I found in a psychology blog that
Researchers have found that women who share fewer immune genes with their male partners also report more frequent orgasms (Garver-Apgar et al., 2006).
And the genes ...
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