grant thomas wrote:
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Doug Taylor wrote:
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grant thomas wrote:
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John McAlister wrote:
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Well let's look at it another way how does one know that the gene he is chasing isn't in 1 of the other vials of frozen now with 700 million sperm you must remember that no 2 could be identical because that is what breeding is all about GENE CHASING breeders breed for stamina for speed keenness big not so big so many reasons we breed .... and that is part of PW's theories because it is written on GD
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ALL sperm carry the exact same genes(genetic code) pasted on from the male...the sperm in vial 1 are IDENTICAL to the sperm in vial 2,3,4,etc...because 1 dog in the litter is better must be another factor...nourishment...etc...
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Grant I think you'll find it's the swapping of material in the process of meiosis (splitting of genetic material) that makes them different.
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But ALL sperm carry the same 'fingerprint'...yes...???
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Grant this is for you because i know how much you love my copy and pastes ..EVERY SINGLE SPERM IS DIFFERENT Do dogs have the same kind of DNA as humans? Yes and no. Yes their DNA, like every living things DNA, is made of the same building blocks of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs. But their DNA isnt exactly alike. All those As, Ts, Gs, and Cs are put together in different orders for dogs and people. In fact, even though you and I both have human DNA, our DNA is put together a little differently too. Which all makes sense when you think about DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid) as a cookbook for building a living thing. The recipes in this DNA cookbook are written in a simple language with only the four letters A, T, G, and C as its alphabet. Doesnt sound like enough letters but they are plenty because there are billions of them repeated and jumbled in so many different combinations. Which means that the DNA inside of you or a dog is really, really long. A complete set of human DNA has a total of 3.3 billion letters. If these were printed on a giant piece of paper, with 50 letters per square inch, the piece of paper youll need would be 8 times the size of a football field! You are different from me because every now and then, you have a different letter from me at a certain spot. So maybe at position 17, 456, 327 I have an A and you have a G. On average, you and I have around six million of these differences. And you and a dog, have many more differences within and outside of your recipes. Different Cookbooks, Different Organisms As I said, your complete set of DNA or genome can be thought of as the book that carries all the instructions for making you. As weve learned, as a human you have around 3.3 billion letters. A dogs is a bit smaller with only 2.8 billion letters. These 500 million different letters sounds like a big deal but it turns out they probably arent. Most of these are more like blank pages or maybe doodles in the book. Losing them probably isnt the big difference between dogs and people. (Although new studies suggest that they might be more important that we thought. Stay tuned!) humans and dogs have different numbers of chromosomes too. But the number of chromosomes doesnt really matter much either. Just as a book is divided into chapters, and chapters into sentences, the long strings of genome DNA are chopped up into chapters called chromosomes. Within each chromosome are pieces called genes with an average length of 3,000 letters. Genes are like the individual recipes in a cookbook. Instead of recipes for cookies or spaghetti sauce, these are recipes for hair color, making eyes or putting our brains together. Like in a real cookbook, the recipes have the differences that matter. If you took a cookbook and just divided it up differently, it wouldnt matter. All the recipes would still be there. This would be like dividing someones genes into a different number of chromosomes. It wouldnt matter either. But if you put together a book of different recipes, then youd have different cookbooks and so make different meals. This is one of the big differences between peoples and dogs DNA. Now the difference isnt the number of recipes. Humans have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes split across 23 chromosomes while dogs have around but the same number spread across 39 chromosomes. In a sense, humans and dogs have cookbooks filled with the same number of recipes. This makes sense, because humans and dogs share so many similar body parts that carry out the same basic biological functions. They even share many kinds of genetic diseases - cancer, blindness, and congenital heart disease, for example. Thats why scientists have been turning to dogs as a model for studying human diseases. The differences between you and Lassie (Toto? Snoopy?) have more to do with having a few different recipes and with changes within the ones you share. You also have differences in the instructions for how often and when each recipe is read compared to a dog. So you might have a crme brulee recipe that the dogs cookbook doesnt and the dog has a fritter one that you dont have. You also might have the recipe for oatmeal cookies but a dog might have one for chocolate chip. And you might have the oatmeal cookie for a snack and the dog has its chocolate chip cookie for dessert. All these kinds of differences make you different from a dog (and to a lesser extent, different from me). Most of these differences are the result of having different letters in the recipes themselves or in the instructions in how to use them. In other words, some differences are in the genes themselves and some are in the DNA outside of the genes that tell a cell how often to read a gene. On the whole, only 25% of the DNA sequence in the dog genome exactly matches the human sequence. When the tiny changes in the other 75% of the DNA are piled up across 25,000 genes and across trillions of cells in the body, the results are two very different organisms. Ps
John I cannot see your posts anymore because I have used the tool available on data to Block a persons name and posts... LOL
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