The Back Room

[Nexaduro]

Man, no one listens to me in my moments of greatest clarity. Someone could at least try to explain why I'm wrong.

[Icuownage]

Due to climate change around the time of the asteroid, I guess their traits became less useful, they gained wings to escape fast predators, large predators like the t-rex probably died out quickly after the climate change. They lost their scales because with wings they had another method of escape which was much more effective and the scales might of weighed em down. Smaller because it's easier to fly, and a more aerodynamic physique cause of the whole flight thing. Flightless birds, I can't explain.

[Earth]

Welcome to my world, Nex. The world where no one gives a [cabbage] about your opinions, and thinks your an idiot.

[Icuownage]

I think from time to time everyone is in that world.

 

That world is a sl*t

[jasignhagj]

[Hide=DONT OPEN THIS]Failure[/hide]

[Earth]

What, an extreme topic change, Spork?

[The_Mather1]

Rocco, DNA is not that simple.

Say these are their specific genes:

Arms x2

Scales x2

Lean x2

Teeth x2

 

Then there comes in one like this:

Arms x2

Scales x2

Feathers x1

Lean x2

Teeth x2

 

It still has scales.

Then its offspring gets the feather gene.

 

Eventually some ofspring of that breeds with another with that gene and their offspring gets feathers, say then it still is accepted since those a rudimentary feathers not to different from the scales.

 

Then the arms develop into wings the same way.

Eventually they learn to fly and the better feathers and wings are carried on since those with them survive the best.

Eventually the teeth are changed for beaks since the most aerodynamic ones survive more often.

That continues for many generations and they grow more and more like birds.

 

However that change takes hundreds of millenia siince it is actually the DNA, not the genes that change first.

[Retech]

Genes = DNA strung together

[Icuownage]

Thought it was

 

DNA = Genes strung togather.

[The_Mather1]

No, one gene = Entire DNA strand + proteins.

The dna changes, the gene is only slightly modified, that said we have more than 50% the same DNA sequence as flowers.

[Earth]

oh dear god this page is hilarious!

http://www.goblinscomic.com/01282007/

[Retech]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene

 

A gene is a sequence of DNA which codes a kind of protein, or serves some function. (What it says in the first sentence basically)

 

 

 

Your example makes no sense.

[Nexaduro]

On that note, Zombie Hunters is one of the best comics I've read.

 

:^_^: "It's a brick flai-"

:huh: "No. No it's not.

[The_Mather1]

Rocco, there are, they just have different names as they lasted long enough to be their own species:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosauropteryx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudipterix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchiornis_huxleyi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confuciusornis

 

EDIT: I thought you meant currently.

 

Retech, a gene is what passes our traits, for example hair, skin and eye colour.

[Iconic]

On that note, Zombie Hunters is one of the best comics I've read.

 

:^_^: "It's a brick flai-"

:huh: "No. No it's not.

I love it, I haven't read it all but I absolutely love it.

 

Edit: is anyone going to play D'neering?

[Retech]

Except there isn't a single gene that controls most traits. There probaly isn't a "wing" gene or an "arm" gene. It's a combination of MANY genes.

[Seraphi]

Uh oh.

 

Creationism vs. Evolution debate.

 

I'm just going to go ahead and try to stay silent here.

[Iconic]

How about.... Creatiolutionism!!! Bwahahaha! I WIN!

[The_Mather1]

Except there isn't a single gene that controls most traits. There probaly isn't a "wing" gene or an "arm" gene. It's a combination of MANY genes.

There are two genes for each trait, we only have 46 you know.

[Retech]

...

 

Those are chromosomes.

 

 

 

If we only had 23 traits, then don't you think everyone would look almost exactly the same?

[The_Mather1]

Genes = chromosomes, they are what we get from our parents.

 

No, there are more than two alternatives for them, say we have an avarage of ten different sets for each 23¹⁰ is a large number, 41,426,511,213,649 to be exact.

[Retech]

It is a single piece of coiled DNA containing many genes

 

Wikipedia, Article on Chromosomes.

[The_Mather1]

They're not litterally the same, but each gene controls the function of one chromosome.

[Retech]

We can't be certain about that either, but there is more than one gene to influence a Chromosome.

[Iconic]

Creationism will win every debate because it can't lose. Interpretation of the Bible changes every generation. People used to take it literally, now, people like me take it as a moral code. Scientists can argue about evolution all they want, but there's no way to prove that there isn't a God. It's simply not possible.

Its also the reason why agnosticism is the best choice :P

 

Dungeoneering's on and your a player Rocco, do you want to play?