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1. LVB+sv[view] [source] 2020-04-26 23:23:08
>>qqqqqu+(OP)
Genetics. I still have no intuition for how combining my wife’s and my DNA has resulted in children with traits from both of us. My brain always tries to imagine interleaving two binaries and hoping for a resulting program that works a bit like the two sources, which it of course wouldn’t.
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2. vmcept+Hw[view] [source] 2020-04-26 23:34:26
>>LVB+sv
I mean that's close, but not compiled binaries, just merged in very similar source code in a pull request, where sometimes an && is added to a conditional statement to express a gene that had skipped a generation.

Both sexes have haploid gametes, which form a zygote when combined. I think this can steer your research when you look into what gametes contain and chromosome combination.

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