Re: mitochondria and ID

Matt Silberstein wrote:

> On 27 Sep 2005 09:10:24 -0700, in talk.origins , hersheyh@xxxxxxxxxxx
> in <1127837424.154760.159510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>I know that it is common to think of an allele as being inately
>>"dominant" or "recessive", just as it is common to think of an allele
>>being inately "beneficial" or "detrimental". Both are false ideas.
>>Alleles are dominant or recessive only with respect to the specified
>>alternate allele in a diploid. There are many examples of alleles with
>>different dominance/recessiveness to different alleles. But it also is
>>often, but not necessarily, true that any allele with a
>>"loss-of-function" mutation is often recessive to the w.t. functioning
>>allele.
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> For any allele pair, however, one "runs" and the other doesn't, right?

Nope. Consider the ABO blood antigen system. What's type AB?

Perhaps you were thinking of Barr bodies; but that's only the X chromosome.

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