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by hinathan 5202 days ago
Fascinating point about parents — knowing their genome means you could in principle know the entire potential configuration space of all their (real or hypothetical) offsprings' genomes.
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Even if we ignore crossovers, potential configuration space for genotype is very very large, 2^46. Add crossovers and mutations and variations in genotype is practically infinite. Of course how that maps to variation in phenotype is a complex issue.