Red hair is an example of Autosomal trait inheritance.The classic dominant and recessive genes that you get taught about in your school Biology classes. Hair colour is determined from the genes your parents pass to you , one gene from each. Red Hair is a recessive trait. So a real red-head has to have inherited the recessive gene from both parents. The trait itself is sex irrelevant, that is both the X and the Y chromosomes carry a gene for hair colour.
Sex linked traits do occur however.Haemophilia for example. It’s caused by a recessive defect on the X chromosome which has no corresponding allele on the Y chromosome.If your a woman your other X chromosome will override the Haemophilia trait (unless you inherit another X chromosome from the other parent which is very unlikely). If your a man however, your out of luck.In fact the X Chromosome is larger than the Y Chromosome and there are a number of single gene traits found only on the X.
Now what i’m complaining about was the statement that you inherit the mutant gene from the father.
It can’t be carried on both the X and Y chromosomes because otherwise it would work like hair colour and the statement that the Father is responsible can’t be true.
So if must it only be carried on 1 chromosome the X or the Y .
If it’s on the X then both parents can pass it along to their offspring , although it does mean that if only the Father has it then only his daughters will have the mutant gene.If The Mother or both parents have it then it doesn’t matter. in any case the statement that the Father is responsible can’t be true.
Which means that it has to be passed on the Y chromosome. In which case only Sons can be mutants.
Now if they had said it was inherited from the mother, then that would be fine. Both sexs inherit an X chromosome , no problem.But saying the father passes along the mutant gene doesn’t make sense
Did anyone else catch the two separate references to “The Once and Future King”? (Magneto was reading it when Stryker came into his cell, and Professor X was discussing it for his “class” at the end of the movie) I think this had to be referencing Jean Grey’s return as The Phoenix, I can’t imagine what else it was referencing.
Also, to the person who said he didn’t buy the mind-control drug used…it was explained by Stryker that the serum was fluid secreted by his son Jason’s brain.
OK, we have people who can shoot lasers from their eyes, people who can control the weather, fire manipulators, ice people, etc. and some of you people can’t accept the fact that the imaginary mutant gene is passed by the father because real life genetics says so? Jeez…
Someone just reminded me what it’s really most likely referencing. In the book, King Arthur in the course of his studies, learns that the only creatures that make war amongst themselves are ants, termites and human beings.
My idea about The Once and Future King is that Magneto and Professor X were reading it for different reasons. Magneto, perhaps, enjoyed it because he identifies with Arthur’s situation; Arthur has been appointed by God to rule England, and is attacked and betrayed by lesser men around him. Professor X, on the other hand, identifies with Merlin, who attempts to tutor Arthur and instill in him virtues that will ensure that he uses his gifts to promote peace and protect the innocent.
For anybody’s who’s curious the movie was based on the X-Men graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills. Came out in 1982 IIRC (wouldn’t you kill to see Berry in Storm’s outfit on the cover? Rowrr).
Couple of points:
To whoever asked about Nightcrawler’s piety, he is indeed devoutly religious (Catholic) in the comic, and although I never read the specific comics where it happened he at one point entered the priesthood. He is however more of a “guilty” Catholic and loves the ladies.
Yuriko (Deathstrike) despises Wolverine in the comic because her father had devised a method of bonding adamantium with bone and thought that Wolverine had stolen that idea. Also she started off as a relatively nice person but someone mucked with her mind. And she didn’t have a healing factor in the comic, she was a cyborg.
I loved how the actor playing Nightcrawler did the little head-tilty, hand-flourishy, chest-sticky-outy, to-full-height-self-pully-uppy thing whenever he introduced himself - it was great, prideful gesture, only a little thing but it added to the character. “I am Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus I was known as the Incredible Nightcrawler!”
You’re not misremembering. I clearly remember that story. There were at least three mutants being toyed with (not sure if magneto was behind it). He was imprisoned in a cubic room with no clues of where it might be. It could have been deeply underground or submerged for all he knew. When he finally decided to make a blind jump, he teleported high, very high into the sky to minimize the chances of a collision. Also, he mentionned that he couldn’t just teleport back on the ground as the impact would be even worse than him falling the couple thousand feets. He finally opted for teleporting a few hundred feet from the ground and using hot air currents or something similar to plane (?) before he landed.
Colossus was placed on a rock in the sea near the shore and there were submerged lasers underwater which would kill him if he tried to use his metal form (increased mass and volume) but wouldn’t if he kept his human form. He tested that theory by throwing two different sized rocks in the water.
The last one I remember was angel (if that’s his name. the dude with the wings) who was placed into a room with lasers (what’s with the lasers anyways?) that would start shooting if he moved. He had to memorize their patterns and he just slalomed between them.
And no, I have no idea why this information is still in my brain 15 years after I actually read the darn comic.
Gozu, it’s called the “Direct Utility Retention Recursive,” I think. See, the less useful a bit of information is to you in day to day life, the more likely it is to stick in your brain like chewing gum on the underside of a desk.
It’s a sickness, man.
Time for Skeezix to pony-up:
To which I replied that it was probably the X-ray of Deathstrike’s fingernail spikes, which could look like a wing, in a quick shot.
Wrongo.
Upon a second viewing, I saw that there was indeed an image, way up in the right hand corner of the board, that looked a whole bunch like a spread wing, about three pictures away from the x-ray of the hand I mentioned.
Kudos to Cataclysm for havin’ them sharp eyes.
[sub]Hey, I think your eyes are a little too good. Are you registered? I’m callin’ the Project:Wideawake hotline…[/sub]
With Nightcrawler appearing in X2 as a full fledged character and Collossus making a cameo that might be made into one in X3, this makes me sooo happy. Those were always my three favorite characters.
Now if they’ll just get Apocalypse in there as the villain!
Ok, your right i am being picky on the whole genetics thing, but maybe i like being picky Can i borrow your horse when your done with it Cataclysm ?
Another thing. Anyone got a DVD copy of the 1st X-men? In the flashbacks Wolverine has there i got a definite Nazi vibe on the uniforms people were wearing, but it’s so brief i can’t be sure on Video. I thought they were going to have some WW2 super soldier type tie in but obviously not.Just wondering if what you see in the 1st film matchs what they decided to go with.
Deptford, the comics have on at least one occasion suggested Wolverine served in the CANADIAN army during World War II, so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense for him to have been a Nazi supersoldier.
In the first movie the uniforms appeared modern-day American to me.
No, No, i wasn’t suggesting he was actually a Nazi. What i was envisaging was say a scenario where he was captured and then experimented on when his Healing powers were discovered.I’m not claiming the uniforms were Nazi , just that in the very brief glimpse you saw of them they looked that way and i was wondering what people with a DVD quality freexe frame could see.
Can i borrow your horse when your done with it Cataclysm ?