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Sex and Genetics ! - ketchim - 07-04-2016
Darwin, the father of evolution thought sex was confusing. He wrote in 1862:
"We do not even in the least know the final cause of sexuality;
why new beings should be produced by the union of the two sexual elements.
The whole subject is as yet hidden in darkness."
Re: Sex - ketchim - 07-04-2016
Many species are totally preoccupied by sex and will go to great lengths to gain a mate.
The male bowerbird builds elaborate nests to impress females..
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Re: Sex - ketchim - 07-04-2016
Sex is an opportunity for two organisms in the same species to pool their resources.
Asexual parents produce offspring that are basically carbon copies of themselves.
Re: Sex and Genetics ! - ketchim - 07-04-2016
Joining together chunks of two separate genomes requires a different kind of process
– an egg must be fertilised.
It also means each parent only passes half of its genes to the offspring. :-[
Re: Sex and Genetics ! - ketchim - 07-04-2016
So, bearing all this in mind, why should so many species take the long and winding route
of sexual reproduction, when a straightforward path is available ?
Re: Sex and Genetics ! - ketchim - 07-04-2016
Poster Chin is Asexual as her claim is !
her Identical Twins at 12 years old is 180 pounds each .
a split image of her 200 pound self.
Her 97 pound daughter takes after her scrawny husband .
Re: Sex and Genetics ! - Watooka - 07-05-2016
Is why Ketchim fascinated with sex and genetics suddenly? Bai you thinking of practising same sex in order to avoid the opposite sex?
Re: Sex and Genetics ! - ketchim - 07-05-2016
Trying to get Chin to unnastan how she gave Birth during her Menopause :
to Identical Twin Boys and why them grow to 180 pounds each by age 10 !
BUT she head hard ....based on her above post !!