by Sanjay » Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:35 pm
The Comic
I like this joke but I can't help shake feeling bothered about the third line. Establishing that the two traits are autosomal dominant seems kind of... irrelevant? It's certainly not the only way this kind of inheritance could have happened. I mean, pretty much as long as the two traits weren't both because of spontaneous autosomal mutations (or worse, non-genetic influences), the traits could be inherited.
I suppose it gets you thinking "oh, let's think about genetic inheritance now" for the punchline, but, I don't know.
I just wonder whether a better line would have been something like "both traits were genetically determined" or something.
[url=http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3528]The Comic[/url]
I like this joke but I can't help shake feeling bothered about the third line. Establishing that the two traits are autosomal dominant seems kind of... irrelevant? It's certainly not the only way this kind of inheritance could have happened. I mean, pretty much as long as the two traits weren't both because of spontaneous autosomal mutations (or worse, non-genetic influences), the traits could be inherited.
I suppose it gets you thinking "oh, let's think about genetic inheritance now" for the punchline, but, I don't know.
I just wonder whether a better line would have been something like "both traits were genetically determined" or something.