Re: Anquet Upgrade - Their Conditions - Questions and Answers

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"Paul Saunders" <pvs1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike Clark wrote:
>
> >> Pehonotype?
> >
> > sorry didn't smell chuck before sending, it should have been
> > 'Phenotype'
>
> Phenotype?
>

Ok the phenotype is the physical manifestation of characteristics
encoded by genes (your genotype) because of recessive and dominant genes
it may be that the phenotype doesn't give complete information on all
the genes that are present (usually you have two alleles for each gene
because your chromosomes are paired). Dominant alleles may hide the
existence of recessive alleles.

For example someone whose blood group (phenotype) was A may have a
genotype that is either AA or AO. Someone who is blood group B may have
a genotype that is BB or BO but somebody who has blood group AB has
genotype AB and somebody who is blood group O has genotype OO

> > > Autistic traits?
> >
> > e.g. Pedantry. Definitions and precision are given real importance. A
> > desire to organise, to categorise, to precisely define. Maintain lists
> > and databases. To trainspot, to stamp collect, to bag Munros, to tick
> > walks and climbs, lists of peaks. A desire to always do things the
> > same way, or the correct way.
>
> Sounds familiar. I sometimes get frustrated with my obsession to
> arrange and order things consitently, to ensure that every sentence
> has a full stop on the end and so on. I sometimes find myself
> wasting a lot of time reformatting things for consistency.
>
> I also tend to be extrememly fussy about the arrangement and alignment
> of windows on my computer screen. Everything has to be in exactly
> the right place for the most efficient workflow, unfortunately it
> becomes less efficient when I waste time ensuring that window
> alignments are pixel perfect. If anyone else ever sits down at my
> computer (very rare) to do something, like check their email, it
> drives me up the wall if they start moving my windows around!
>
> I suppose this is obsessive perfectionism, and it can be very
> inefficient, even though I often do these things for the sake of
> efficiency. I'm not an obsessive person on the whole though, it's
> only certain things. For example, my computer desktop is obsessively
> neat and tidy, yet my real desktop is usually a complete mess! Go
> figure?
>
> I also love the chaos of nature, the complete lack of order in the
> wilderness. Perhaps I need that to compensate.
>
> > Newsnet is full of people who exhibit autistic traits. I'm one of
> > them.
>
> So let me see, you're not implying that people with autistic traits
> are actually autistic, are you? Or is there a grey area between
> normal and autistic, rather than a sharp dividing line? I know
> practically nothing about autism.
>

No there are recognised degrees of Autism that cover a spectrum of
characteristics that in the extreme might be classified as disabilities
but in mild form might be advantageous and beneficial.

It basically means you see and appreciate the world in a slightly
different way and with different perspectives to most others.

> > The other side is that extreme autism can also mean a failure to
> > empathise or to understand another persons feelings or why they
> > maintain a point of view. People with autistic traits often fail to
> > recognise why the other person is getting upset in an argument.
>
> Now that sounds familiar too! If I have unwittingly upset anyone, I
> apologise.
>
> Paul
>

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