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by clcuc 1970 days ago
Would you care to elaborate? You're talking about the Y of the XY chromosomes?
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If Dante’s son had a son who had a son x 36, the Y chromosome would not have changed much
Assuming all those 36 sons were actually children of their legal fathers.
In general you can say that on average a child has 25% of their genes from each grandparent. But in the case of the sex chromosomes, we know that a male has 50% of their paternal grandfather's sex chromosomes and 0% of their paternal grandmother's sex chromosomes (and vice versa for a female); the Y chromosome is passed on whole or not at all (you can't get half of it from your mother).