The Never Dying Group discussion

Please pass this along through email or however to ANYONE and EVERYONE you know! (Especially any MEN, unfortunately of the people I've had vote 90% are female! :) ) We've got to get as many responses as possible from a wide variety of areas in the U.S. in a short amount of time.

Here's a link:SURVEY

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!!

The link didn't work for me

me either... "ivalid survey url"...

yepz...

aaah, das betterer... now it vyrks..

It "should" work now. Let me know if it doesn't.

Thank you!

Idk wut my blood type is

i filled it out until i got to the blood type, cauze idk what mine is, so...:P

haha, i dunno either, and it won't let u submit w/o it, so...

ur parents might know

i asked. she doesn't know. so...

also if you called your doctor's office they could proabbly tell you...

I don't know my blood type...

And neither do my parents.

I'm sorry, I couldn't finish! I don't know what my blood type is...

Yeah...

hahaha, everyone has the same exact problem... *sigh*
sorry!

LOL

I think I'll just make something up. My dad's O something, and my mom's AB something, I think... LOL So I could by ANYTHING.

I'm not even going to try it, since I don't know my blood type...

WAIT!!!! LUNA!!!! So your dad is O, and your mom is AB... I just learned about blood types!

O- ii
AB- I(A)I(B)

Luna, you could either be A or B blood, genetically!

Cool!!!

Tell me stuff about blood types!!! I like listening to info. *sits down in comfy chair* *waits for Nightshade to talk about blood types* *yawns, still waiting*

Ok, here it comes...

What blood type you have depends on what blood type your parents have, actually. It also depends on whether they're carrying dominant or recessive alleles (alleles are different forms of traits). Have you learned Punnett squares yet??? If you have, good. If you haven't, crud. This complicates things.

Anyways, dominant alleles are the ones that show up in your appearance. Recessive alleles are the ones that are hidden. Though the weird thing is, if you have TWO recessive alleles, it shows up. If you have one dominant and one recessive, the dominant one shows up.

For example, eye color (a simplified version). Brown is the dominant color, and blue is the recessive color. Let's say that little Billy's mom had brown eyes, and his dad had blue eyes. The dominant color (brown) will be represented as B, and the recessive (blue) as b. So Billy could get...

BB- mom, bb- dad
Since the B's and b's are combined, he could have either Bb (brown) or... actually, that's it.

Bb-mom, bb- dad
If this was it, and his mom had one dominant and one recessive, the story would be different. Billy could have Bb (brown) or bb (blue), because he could get the two recessive traits from his mom and dad.

So, for blood types...
O type- ii (alleles- both recessive)
AB type- I(A)I(B) (this is called codominance, when two dominant thingys are in)
A type- I(A)i (one dominant, one recessive) or I(A)I(A) (2 A dominant)
B type- I(B)i (one dominant, one recessive) or I(B)I(B) (2 B dominant)

So, Luna, if your dad is O, he would have ii. If your mom is AB, she would have I(A)I(B). So you could get...

I(A)i- A type blood
or...
I(B)i- B type blood

I know it's confusing. You can look up Punnett squares...

oh, i hate punnet squares... they remind me of numberz, which reminds me of math... >.<

I LOVE MATH! But I don't like Punnett squares. Especially the sixteen-square ones.

Punnett Squares can go die...And sorry, I don't know my blood type nor do i plan on doing math at this time at night lol

LOL

GAH! I don't know what Punnett squares are!!!

i didn't learn about them till biology, so... i hate them anyway...

i learned them in 7th grade and now again in biology after our mid-terms

i had them before mid-termz... glad they're done, ergh.... at leeast, they are for now, but they'll probly be back... everything i post on becomes a topic train-wreck... i don't think topic's like me :\

lol i'm sure topics love you..and besides this isn't becoming a train-wreck, this is very important to the survey :)

What poll? Huh?

yeah, what!? haha... i'ma go check the pollz to see what sheez talkin aboot..

Yeah...

whoops i meant to say Survey not poll lol

okeys i edited it..

Okay dokay, LOL Because I was just in the polls section, thinking, 'Hm... don't see anything...'

lol

hahahah i see... sarcasm is even harder to get when you accidentally use the wrong word >.< haha..

So what excactly is she doing?

LUNA! GO GOOGLE PUNNETT SQUARES! NOW!

But in case the internet is too confusing, like it usually is... Punnett squares are these squares (duhhh) that show the possible combinations of two traits, from the parents of whatever human or something. Sooo.... remember about the B and b? Dominant and recessive? It would look something like this...


___B____b___
b |__Bb_|_bb__|
b |__Bb_|_bb__|

Agh it's all weird. But you get the idea.

hey kayla, how does this survey help with the science fair project????

@_@

Ya.... I was wondering the same thing... but whatevs. XD

I ♥ science but I hate math... kinda stinks that they go hand in hand :(

Some scientists believe there is a connection between your blood type and your personality traits. We are trying to see if that is true.

Intresting!

Okay, Nightshade, that part about the blue/brown eyes totally contradicts the end of my 7th grade science..........

You'll have to share her results with us when she's done

What happened at the end of your 7th grade science??? Because I know I'm right, unless I accidentally made a typo.