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Eye color punnet square disproves evolution?
Okay so in biology we're doing something called the punnet square lab and we are using spongebob as an example. Ok so it says brown eyes have 2 dominant genes, and blue/ green have 2 recessive genes. But if i did the punnet square with my family, my moms eyes are blue so its "bb" for her and my dads green so again its "gg" for him. But the thing is all their kids would then have either blue or green eyes but im the only person with BROWN and my little and older sisters both have BLUE eyes and my older brother has GREEN with a weird small orange ring around the pupil
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- Holly BollyLv 510 years agoFavorite Answer
You have misunderstood Mendellian genetics.
Mendel showed that mixing one trait always resulted in a 3:1 ratio between dominant and recessive phenotypes, his experiments with mixing two traits showed 9:3:3:1 ratios.
Not nearly as simplistic as your experiment.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Eye color is not dependent on a single gene, pumpkin, so trying to work it out on a Punnet square is not as clean as it would have been if, for example, your teacher used tall/short in pea plants, the same characteristics that Gregor Mendel, the father of the science of genetics, used in his research, or went with something a bit less inclined to blend.
Hemophilia, male patterned baldness, and other, similar sex-linked characteristics are clearer and easier to understand, although I understand your teacher's wish to involve you in the lab and make it seem personal.
You have not disproven evolution, though.
- PaulCypLv 710 years ago
In fact, if your data were correct, all the children would have to be "bg". There would be no other possibility. However in reality, eye color is controlled by several different genes, not just one from each parent. In any case, this relates only to immediate genetic inheritance. It has nothing to do with biological evolution.
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- Anonymous10 years ago
You do not know the genes of your parents. You are only guessing. Blue is recessive, but also the natural color - so if the trait does not manifest, the person may have blue eyes, but double dominant genes. Furthermore, you also don't know your parents are your biological parents.
- RaatzLv 710 years ago
Eye color is multi- factorial. High school teaches you Mendelian. Polygenetic traits do not produce Mendelian ratios. What you've been taught in Biology is only a summary.
...Assuming you actually thought a clueless teen caught something no expert in genetics had noticed.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Mother's gamete- Only 1 i.e. abcd Father's gametes- 16 That would be a 16x1 punnett square.
- Anonymous10 years ago
That doesn't "disprove" evolution...but it might suggest that you're adopted. Or that mom was fooling around...:)
Or that (and this is actually the case) eye color is actually more than a simple case of one "gene."
Peace.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color - ?Lv 710 years ago
Genetics are a lot more complex than the stuff they teach at school m'dear
Anyhow, what does this have to do with evolution?