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It’s uncommon to have blue eyes. Blue eyes come from the presence of two recessive genes, it’s more common to have brown eyes because they come from one dominant gene. Which means it should be almost impossible for two recessive genes to spring up for both the children you have. But considering it was blue or an even rarer gene of purple eyes, it does seem more likely for the blue to win in this case. Jazz’s family all having no dangling ears, recessive. Jazz’s friends making fun of the way she can’t curl her tongue taco-style, recessive (though that one’s less fun). Overall, Jazz’s family is one freak show of impossible. (Is it just how we look or…)
And yeah Jazz understands how important genes are in understanding a person. One look at her and people go “you look just like your mom”. And looking at her is one thing, her mom looks great but being known as the town crazies while leaving your children in an environment that would give HIPPA inspectors a heart attack is not something Jazz wants to grow into at all. In fact, she hopes she doesn’t touch that within a 10-ft pole.
It’s why when her professor introduced the class to the topic of nature vs. nurture she got so invested. She wants to be bigger than the 50/50 gene lottery, she wants to be greater than what her parents gave her which was a whole lot of love with nothing to show for it. She wants to be there for Danny and every kid that comes after him. And maybe just maybe those impossible traits are another way of telling her she’s going to do the impossible. (Jazz they’re the impossible, we’re the probable and we’re gonna kick ass at this life thing) (Yeah Danny thanks)
It’s just, so many things are genetic. Sometimes a parent can have a recessive gene for a disorder and pass it on to their children even if they don't have it. Or you can have the disorder and not pass it to your child. If neither parent has the disorder, the disorder could be in the child. If neither parent has a gene for disorder, then the disorder is not in the child. If both parents have the disorder and the alleles for the disorder, then the disorder is in the child. There’s so many if and ors and Jazz really does not want to be an if and or. And yeah there’s some science that makes it less iffy and orry, but knowing wouldn’t change what it is. (This whole thing is a bore, did you snooze in this class) (No Danny I’m not you, and not everyone wants to study the stars).
Sometimes during her lectures Jazz finds herself wishing she had a more…physical disorder to see. Like when she learned about how down syndrome is because they have an extra chromosome, or turners where an X chromosome is missing. And she feels bad because those are real conditions with people who are majorly affected by it, but it would be some physical evidence that she’s not like her parents. That somewhere along the road the genes messed up. Just something that says “I'm not gonna become like them”.
If there’s anything Jazz has learned it’s that genes aren’t everything, and she’s gonna become 100% of the person her parents could never be.