SciShow: Having Six Fingers is a Dominant Trait

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Content of the Lesson: Genetics are extremely complicated—so complicated that having an extra finger or toe, for example, is exceedingly rare despite it being caused by a dominant gene. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zcdfmsg/revision/6 Herding Hemingway’s Cats Understanding How Our Genes Work - Kat Arney https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2018/1573871/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732663/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232527/ https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/polydactyly https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/17/7/978/869373 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/science/15creatures.html https://www.nature.com/articles/pr2003473 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2016.00149/full https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/12/14/1725/582084 https://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiology/chapter/3-6-cellular-differentiation/ https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/11/science/a-gene-named-sonic.html http://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/22/18/2454.full.pdf https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/0092-8674(93)90626-2.pdf http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/restricted/lm/CongenitalAnomalies/PolySynDactyly.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/gli3 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01033 ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_relaxing_in_front_of_the_Hemingway_House-_Key_West,_Florida_(7294386514).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polydactylcat.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemingway%27s_writing_desk_in_Key_West.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemingway_House_bedroom_and_cat_FL1.jpg


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