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X-Men Mutation Clip

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swanysto

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Does anyone know where I could find an X-Men clip of them explaining how/why the mutations happen? I have been searching the Tube and google all day with no success. It is going to be used for a biology class.
 
you're probably better off renting the dvd and capture it on your pc and upload it to youtube.. which might be illegal to upload but you can show it to your class
 
ok, ill go home and look for the dvd, if i have it ill try to capture it and upload it for you.. no promise, i think i have the dvd
 
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Are you looking for the explanation given in the movie (I don't think they really did explain) or some semi plausible explanation.
 
Texashiker said:
Shouldn't you be working on a vaccine for that new H7 bird flu?
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shouldn't you be smoking your meat?



OP: I wouldn't bother with it, because the vague explanations given are completely useless in biology.

I don't remember any explanation from the comics, only that the movies claimed there is "an X gene," and that "only males carry the X gene." (this is form the 2nd movie)

This makes no sense:
the only chromosome that males have which is unique, is the Y chromosome. putting that together, means the "x gene" would have to be on the Y chromosome.

This means that no female would ever be a mutant. And we know that isn't true to the stories.



It would make more sense for the "x gene" to be a recessive allele on the X chromosome, meaning that both females and males could carry it, and of course males would have a much higher percentage of being mutants
 
zinfamous said:
This makes no sense:
the only chromosome that males have which is unique, is the Y chromosome. putting that together, means the "x gene" would have to be on the Y chromosome.

This means that no female would ever be a mutant. And we know that isn't true to the stories.



It would make more sense for the "x gene" to be a recessive allele on the X chromosome, meaning that both females and males could carry it, and of course males would have a much higher percentage of being mutants
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Maybe the X gene is the X of the XY pair, and that gene itself is not what provides the mutant powers, but instead is responsible for creating the mutations that are passed on in both males and females. So there isn't a dominant/recessive ratio of X genes, but rather a true or false. So once you have it, you pass it on. Then the question becomes, how does one end up with an X gene at the start of your lineage, unless the human race has had it since the beginning and it just continues to aggregate mutations until they exhibit superpower abilities.
 
zinfamous said:
shouldn't you be smoking your meat?



OP: I wouldn't bother with it, because the vague explanations given are completely useless in biology.

I don't remember any explanation from the comics, only that the movies claimed there is "an X gene," and that "only males carry the X gene." (this is form the 2nd movie)

This makes no sense:
the only chromosome that males have which is unique, is the Y chromosome. putting that together, means the "x gene" would have to be on the Y chromosome.

This means that no female would ever be a mutant. And we know that isn't true to the stories.



It would make more sense for the "x gene" to be a recessive allele on the X chromosome, meaning that both females and males could carry it, and of course males would have a much higher percentage of being mutants
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It is more for a think outside the box type exercise, as opposed to a factual type deal.
 
SagaLore said:
Maybe the X gene is the X of the XY pair, and that gene itself is not what provides the mutant powers, but instead is responsible for creating the mutations that are passed on in both males and females. So there isn't a dominant/recessive ratio of X genes, but rather a true or false. So once you have it, you pass it on. Then the question becomes, how does one end up with an X gene at the start of your lineage, unless the human race has had it since the beginning and it just continues to aggregate mutations until they exhibit superpower abilities.
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the X is the same X in all humans and in all species. there is no general difference from a male's X compared to a female's X. Remember--the male gets his X from mommy.

There are certainly sex-linked genes; and these will either be found on the X or y. But with the vagueness of a comment like, "males carry the trait," that can only mean that the gene is found on the Y. all autosomes and all X chromosomes are "generally non-distinguishable" in heterogametic species.

Now, genes can and have migrated from X to Y, from autosomes to X chromosomes (nothing really migrates off of the Y because it does not recombine), but this is a ~millions of years process.
 
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