Question about my friends height.?!

Question about my friends height.?

Ok well my buddy at my school is in 8th grade [so am i] He just turned 14 he's already 6,9 now im the 2nd biggest kid at my school [5,10] but he DWARFS me lol litrally and im curious He told me his parents were not big [Dad 6,1 Mom 5,10] And no one else in his history is that big and I mean he wheres a size 20 shoe bigass mofo im curious and he's not done growing i no that [Because hes been tall his whole life example when I was 12 I was about 5,6 he was 6,4]

How tall do you think he will be [Note he has NOT hit his growth spurt]

[Note No he does not have Gigantism]

1 month ago
Im not worried about my Height cause I no im supposd to be 6,4.

Im worried about him Cause He already gets freakish stares at him and he's 6,9! i mean hes almost 7 foot. and Hes only 14 when he gets older hes gonna have it really bad. I mean there is a thing called Too Tall.

You're curious and the first answerer is a twat.

Anyway, his parents have two sets of genes the side you see and the side you don't.

When the mom make's an egg it can only have half of the genes which are broken up into chromosomes.

Likewise with the father and his sperm.

So for each sequence your buddy could show one of four possibilities based on his parent's genes and an additional four if you account for mutations and defects.

Your buddy most likely is exhibiting normally recessive genes that are expressing themselves for whatever reason.

There is also the remote chance that he is a mutation of regular genes that happens all the time in nature.

Mutations allow us over time to be either more or less successful in our environment. For instance inuit eskimos are kind of fat because it retains heat better. Native people from blazing hot climates are more prone to be skinny because it dissipates heat better. It is likely that the skinny or fat people had the opportunity to have more children to pass that trait on to their offspring proliferating under that particular body shape.

Sickle Cell anemia is a trait found often in places where there is malaria because people that have sickle cells are resistant to getting malaria. The people that did not get malaria lived to pass that trait on to their offspring.

So go into school without scientific proof and tell him either A. he is exhibiting a recessive trait which normally will not show in family history, B. he is a mutant, or C. ask him how tall the mailman is (realize you are insulting his mother when you do this though).