[LMB] name origins, mostly OT: , was off limits?

[James Nicoll]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan wrote:

> Basically, the "dominant" genes don't seem quite as overpowering as I
> thought they were.  But in a different system as you posit, it could
> be any way.  With Drosophila there definitely exist dominant genes
> that fit the proper definition of dominant -- meaning, if a copy of
> the dominant allele is there, you only see the dominant phenotype.
> So, really, you could have it be any way you want.  :-)
>
> Now that I think about it though, I've definitely seen half-Indians
> who I think look completely Indian.  So, very variable, I guess!!

 	My mother's family has an odd trait that is dominant: the nail on 
the little toe is very small, small enough that it's easier [don't read 
the footnote if you get squicked easily] than it is to trim. My mother had 
it, all her kids have it but but only about half my nepoti do.

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.1: to tear it out when it gets too long.