Comment by mythrwy
1 year ago
How about a number of grad level genetics courses? Does that beat your google search? Because that is what I have. And what I am telling you is what happens.
This is really easily searched (as you said).
You might read up on it if interested. Check out why inbreeding can lead to expression of genetic defects. What is the mechanism? (hint: it's not "losing gene diversity" or "suppression").
Very bad courses then.
https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/58769/what-are-t...
Without getting into the validity of the source, let's look at what it says:
Here is the first sentence from the top answer:
`You are right. Inbreeding strongly increases overall homozygosity which subjects inbred individuals to diseases caused by rare recessive alleles.`.
Let's see what homozygosity means shall we?
https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/homozygous
`Homozygous, as related to genetics, refers to having inherited the same versions (alleles) of a genomic marker from each biological parent. Thus, an individual who is homozygous for a genomic marker has two identical versions of that marker. By contrast, an individual who is heterozygous for a marker has two different versions of that marker.`
In other words, errors can accumulate and are more likely to be expressed. Not "gene diversity" (this is a topic relating to evolutionary fitness, selection potential etc.), not "suppression". Error accumulation.
Which is the exact analogy I made initially.
I had this conversation before. I point out how your interpretation is insane and doesn't follow logical reasoning, and you accuse me of gaslighting. I don't want to waste anyone else's time. We could just paste to an AI our both initial statements and ask who is more correct, but I'm sure you would either say AIs (all of them or 99% of them) are wrong, or you would interpret them saying I'm more correct, as you being right.
I have no problems being wrong on the Internet. Unfortunately, for some magical reason, in the overwhelming majority of my conversations, I either recognize it within a minute (or one reply when in writing), or never.
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