Part 2 of 5 - The Ghost in your Genes - BBC Horizon

[Alternatevil]

The conversations in the comments on this video are essentially just like the ones you always hear on a crowded bus.

How in the...hell is one generation equal to one year? HOW?!

[MrJohnny56789]

I like how in this one, the body rejects the woman getting pregnant, and wjhen science forces her pregnant, the baby has a genetic disease. alsmost as if the body is smart enough to tell a bitch shes not having a baby because it will be born fucked up.

[metamaggot]

perhaps one gene = one generation...like rings in trees...

each ring tells us the climate of the year it grew.. each individual gene represents an ancestor...a track record of their life and the diseases they had can be there ..or not..

now we need to know how old the human species is...

30 000 genes=30 000 years?

if so cucumbers have been around longer than we have!

[metamaggot]

@metamaggot hmm not quite..it seems man left africa 200 000 years ago and became really modern abou 50 000 years ago...

if there's 25 000 genes it could be 2 generations= 1 gene

[EvilsOfFeminism]

It's not rocket science that people shouldn't be using so much artificial bullshit, particularly when children are involved. This just in: it appears that messing with natural processes seems to fuck people up. So, yeah...good job, science. Just keep up that stupid shit and watch the birth defects and insanity spiral completely out of control. Sadly, people tend to be healthier when they stay the fuck away from doctors for a reason. Stay away from these experiementers, I say.

[Titusaki]

@EvilsOfFeminism hmm well my brother goes to the doctors ALL the time and he gets sick ALOT, but I don't go often and I don't get sick often. So yeah, that may be true.

[Gravitymann]

I got my huge balls from my great grandfather. Thanks Great Gramps!

[DUNKDAEXCESS]

@Gravitymann I know

[Andre2Dayle]

what Exacley is a gene?....yes i'm stupid :) explain as i'm 7years

[uknowispeaksense]

@Andre2Dayle being 7 doesn't make you stupid. I think though that this video might be a bit grown up for you. You don't need to worry about genes and things for a few years yet.

[Titusaki]

@uknowispeaksense But why not watch videos that are complicated even if people don't understand the video. Why not try to understand and learn from the video, the more people watch videos like these, the more educated they become and the more smarter they will be even if people don't understand, they will still learn from the video. If people watch simple things, their mind may always think simple, etc...

[uknowispeaksense]

@Titusaki dude, he is 7. he has plenty of time to learn complicated things. at 7 all he should worry about is being a kid. When you've got kids of your own you will understand.

[Titusaki]

@uknowispeaksense Yeah I know, but if he wants to know, then why not give him the answer because he seems interested in learning. If he wanted to be a kid then he can, though he can be a kid while he wants to learn about the things he wants to know. So if he wants to learn complicated things while being a kid, it should be ok.

[greeneyedgracie]

@Andre2Dayle a gene is, technically, "a specific location on the chromosome that holds the code for a protein." Genes are what control how you look, and how your body functions. It's a segment of DNA. Alleles are the types of genes that you can have. For example, you have a gene that controls your eye color. One allele will make your eyes blue, another will make them green. Depending on which allele you have and which is dominant, your eyes will be that color.

[sumittechkgp]

I thought inheritance is only possible in C++

[listen2watidontsay]

@sumittechkgp its also possible in Java and others. Just saying.

[molekulaTV]

Maybe these guys should practice some computer programming aside of genetic and bio things because the two areas are obviously show more and more similarities as we look deeper.



[Gajoobles]

@rachelphoebelizzie You would be really fucked

[Aireysghost1]

The scientist at 5.40 looks just like Life on Mars actor John Simm.

[HenryDavidT]

Crude though it was, Lamarck was essentially correct, not unlike Darwin. My twist: keep hacking away the ONE arm, of a family of humans and after a couple thousand generations and what the good professor called GENOMIC IMPRINTING, slowly taking place in both the BRAIN and the genes themselves, will dictate that that arm (of THAT genetic FAMILY all of whose off spring's ONE arm is always hacked away immediately after birth) be reduced, from the embryo phases onward and, ultimately, NOT grown!

[HenryDavidT]

I, for some totally perverse reason, have always thought Lamarck (laughed at & ridiculed), HAD SOMETHING going on, when he made his crude hypothesis about the animals who ACQUIRED Superior Qualities Passes them to their Offpring. It's obvious neither Lamarck nor Darwin --- and for that matter, neither did the great Mandel, who worked on the MATHEMATICAL probability of inheritance --- knew any thing about chromosome structures, specific genes, or the multiple roles each gene plays....

[phoenixicarus]

I'm rolling my eyes at the naivity of some commenters -but then again, this IS youtube. Epigenetics is a field that is relatively young but rapidly growing -this isn't some BIG secret and the data supporting its hypotheses goes back many years and its published for anyone to see. I guess I forget that some fruit pies find consipiracy theory more sexy than taking Genetics 101 or reading a scientific journal.

[kgilster18]

Anthropologists have been teaching this in biology classes for quite some time. I wish that the sciences would communicate more readily. Of course anthropology and paleontology are two of the sciences that have been attempting this since at least the 1970's.

[phatcrayonz]

I have my degree in biology from UT and find this interesting.

[georgel19841]

there are so few comments ,because nobody understands

[sippy07]

@georgel19841 slash no one watches this (eg a singing cat will get 6mil views)

[georgel19841]

@sippy07 she got talent

[d3st88]

@sippy07

Wait, what, there's a singing cat on YouTube? *closes video* *searches for singing cat*

But in all seriousness, yes. I weep in despair over the dimness of the human race.

[RJL738]

This is very important to study.

[johnthedragon928082]

This was on Kant work, he said and described this as "A Priori" experience.

[Ghilliefied]

So there are some parts of genetics we don't understand, then the whole theory of genetics must be false? This is lamarckism, lets not hope it leads to the same catastrophies as it did in the soviet...