I read your statement that the wizarding gene is dominant. I have heard criticism that this does not explain muggle-borns, squibs, or the steady inheritance pattern of magical abilities; but I got your back. Magical ability could be explained by a single autosomal dominant gene if it is caused by an expansion of trinucleotide repeats with non-Mendelian ratios of inheritance.”
I was introduced to this late because I had exams and it’s a plausible genetic interpretation of the “wizarding gene” that works within the parameters set by J.K. Rowling. It’s also a great introduction to how genetics functions at an individual level, with a nod towards how that manifest itself on the level of populations. Hint: it’s never punnet squares, it’s messy and as is the case in my reading of this scenario, you’re always forgetting something important.
With that said, the popular science geneticist within me is saying, yes! But the molecular and human geneticist within me is saying, it was a good try.
![Origins of magic: review of genetic and epigenetic effects, 2007 [link]
I’m not a fan of this kitsch fandom shit but maybe you are that much of a fan. I find the conclusion hilarious, let’s just assume it can be almost everything but it wouldn’t be magic if it’s explanation wasn’t a bit magical, right?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7t14vODUB1qzs6yjo1_1280.png)
Origins of magic: review of genetic and epigenetic effects, 2007 [link]
I’m not a fan of this kitsch fandom shit but maybe you are that much of a fan. I find the conclusion hilarious, let’s just assume it can be almost everything but it wouldn’t be magic if it’s explanation wasn’t a bit magical, right?
Caption: Students Kritz Eliza and Taylor Matzen, dressed as American Indians, participate during a bake sale led by the Berkeley College Republicans Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, at the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif. The Berkeley College Republicans have scheduled a bake sale where the price of a cookie or a brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin. The price of a baked good costs $2 for white people, $1.50 if you’re Asian, $1 for Latinos, 75 cents for African-Americans and 25 cents for Native Americans. Women get a discount of 25 cents. From SFgate.com
Wow. White girls in headdresses, participating in the bake sale. Are they trying to get free cookies or what? This is the insensitivity supported by the UC Berkeley Campus Republicans and their bake sale. From the article:
The Republican students said offering more expensive pastries to white students and less expensive ones to students of other ethnicities illustrated the injustice of any division by race. A few feet away from the bake sale, opposing groups held a “Conscious Cupcakes” giveaway, handing out their own treats for free. And around midday, hundreds of people dressed in black laid down in Sproul Plaza, silently demonstrating their support of SB185.
This come from the opposition to a bill that would allow California’s universities to consider race and ethnicity as one of many factors, like extra-curriculars, in college admissions. The bill would still ban admission based entirely on race or ethnicity.
<sarcasm> Here’s something more honest: How about you still charge the white guy $2.00 for the cookie, give him $3 to buy it, and then let him punch the Native American students in order to steal their cookies, screaming “MANIFEST DESTINY, ASSHOLES!” triumphantly? After that, how about the African-American students are forced to clean up after the bake sale, as the Campus Republicans sip mint juleps and supervise? Is that more honest? </sarcasm>
I don’t support throwing the baked goods at them, nor screaming obscenities. I do absolutely love the steps taken by the Harry Potter student group, selling “enchanted Costco muffins,” for “Two galleons to pure bloods” and “Eight sickles to muggles.”
This is hands down the most disgusting image from today.
