My friend got a leg extension surgery will that height be passed on in his genes!
Question: HE says it will but i tell him that its bS how can you pass on traits that your genes did not code for in the first place so im asking this to prove him wrong once and for all or maybe I will be proven wrong.
Answers: HE says it will but i tell him that its bS how can you pass on traits that your genes did not code for in the first place so im asking this to prove him wrong once and for all or maybe I will be proven wrong.
You are right, he is wrong. Genetic traits are determined by the coding of the genes and is determined at conception.
Ask your friend if he also thinks that if you have your appendix taken out, or your tonsils, if he thinks his offspring will have no appendix or tonsils.
NO that is an artifical way of extention not through his genes!!
of course not....... come on.
Nope. This thing has been proven wrong many times in the past.
Physical characteristics come from genes, which are coded via DNA. The only genes that will get passed on are the ones that end up in gametes - produced in his testes. I'm pretty sure a leg extension surgery does not modify that part at all, so the genes that he will pass on will still be the same as before.
Any changes he had will only apply to him, and because it is a surgery, it is not even caused by his own genes. It is caused by doctors physically editing him.
NO--acquired traits ARE NOT passed on through genetics
Really?? Seriously? He BELIEVES that? No way!!
Sounds like he's doing some wishful thinking, but shame on you for trying to make him feel bad. Some friend you are!