Biology Professor Accidentally Reveals This Girl’s Dad Is Not Her Dad, And Things Escalate Quickly
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A biology student got an unexpected lesson recently, when she found out about her mother’s infidelity through a blood-type discussion given in class.
The biology class, given at California State University, was about the characteristics of blood-types and how they are passed down from generation to generation. They were practising using a Punnett square, which is a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment. The student was reportedly confused as to why her blood-type was AB when her mother’s was A and her father’s O. This is an impossible occurrence, as the A and B genes are dominant and the O gene is recessive. So, as in this example, if an O gene is paired with an A gene, the blood type will be A.
The teacher, sure there was a mistake somewhere, asked the student to go home and confirm that all blood-types were correct. She did, and came back with an incredible revelation that took incredible courage to tell to the entire class.
The entire episode was tweeted by her classmate in a thread that has gone wildly viral. Scroll down below to check it out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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A Punnett square is a diagram that is used to predict the outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment
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I saw this somewhere a few days ago... Despite the story, I just couldn't help thinking about the fact that there's 243 people in a single class and the fact that somehow all those people never learned this in high school and are just finding this out in University.
Thers a show about this idea called "are you smarter than a fifth grader"
Not everyone pays attention in school, or is capable of remembering what they learned so it could be that they're learning it all over again. Some peoole i grew up with complained that we never learned xyz while in school, but I very clearly remember learning thise things. IDK that's my best guess.
Welcome to American Education. 9th grate Biology taught at the college level. Sigh.
Depends what depth it is being taught
I can confirm I took public high school biology and did not learn about Punnett squares until my freshman year of college.
You learn the square, but by given example or posed question. This reason is probably EXACTLY why they go that route. Textbook companies are ridiculously thorough and smart.
No, no, the way the OP wrote, it definitely seems like they're just learning how the square works. I get what you're saying, but it's not what it looks like in the story.
I never learnt about the square at school, I remember learning about various hereditary/genetic things, but we never did about blood types. I can't be the only one, presumably there's hundreds of girls who did the same lessons as I did at my school, and there must be others all around the world that learnt different things to what you learnt.
I'm from the UK and didn't learn anything about blood types in school. I remember learning about hereditary traits, and things like dominant and recessive genes, but I've never seen this square before. Perhaps it's not a necessary part of the curriculum, but just an example of how genetics work.
I went to school so long ago, we pricked our fingers and squeezed out blood drops to determine our own blood types. I don't think we'll see that again anytime soon.
I'm from the UK too, and we never learned this either. In English we dealt with Chaucer and iambic pentametre, but in biology this was never mentioned. The implication some are making that these students were not taught something which is common knowledge is ignorance in itself.
That's nothing. First year Computer Science starts with the computer version of "this is what a plus sign looks like. Next week, we'll talk about subtraction."
Wow
I thought that too, that's one huge class!!
The University of California is the world's leading public research university system. With 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 3 national labs and a network of agricultural and natural resource centers, UC boasts large numbers of distinguished faculty and researchers in every field. Stands to reason that there would be 200+ students in a freshman class.
this
That poor kid, she may act ballsy now, but finding out something like this is not an easy thing to swallow and she must find strength to get past this and move on with her life.
So because she was brave about this it's an act? Different people respond different ways to things. Don't deny her that without knowing her.
TwiceRice23 You Asshat, read it right first!! No one said it's an act!!
TwiceRice23 lmao, shut up
someone always told me... anything you do in the dark will always come to light... it makes sense now... sorry for her
I saw this somewhere a few days ago... Despite the story, I just couldn't help thinking about the fact that there's 243 people in a single class and the fact that somehow all those people never learned this in high school and are just finding this out in University.
Thers a show about this idea called "are you smarter than a fifth grader"
Not everyone pays attention in school, or is capable of remembering what they learned so it could be that they're learning it all over again. Some peoole i grew up with complained that we never learned xyz while in school, but I very clearly remember learning thise things. IDK that's my best guess.
Welcome to American Education. 9th grate Biology taught at the college level. Sigh.
Depends what depth it is being taught
I can confirm I took public high school biology and did not learn about Punnett squares until my freshman year of college.
You learn the square, but by given example or posed question. This reason is probably EXACTLY why they go that route. Textbook companies are ridiculously thorough and smart.
No, no, the way the OP wrote, it definitely seems like they're just learning how the square works. I get what you're saying, but it's not what it looks like in the story.
I never learnt about the square at school, I remember learning about various hereditary/genetic things, but we never did about blood types. I can't be the only one, presumably there's hundreds of girls who did the same lessons as I did at my school, and there must be others all around the world that learnt different things to what you learnt.
I'm from the UK and didn't learn anything about blood types in school. I remember learning about hereditary traits, and things like dominant and recessive genes, but I've never seen this square before. Perhaps it's not a necessary part of the curriculum, but just an example of how genetics work.
I went to school so long ago, we pricked our fingers and squeezed out blood drops to determine our own blood types. I don't think we'll see that again anytime soon.
I'm from the UK too, and we never learned this either. In English we dealt with Chaucer and iambic pentametre, but in biology this was never mentioned. The implication some are making that these students were not taught something which is common knowledge is ignorance in itself.
That's nothing. First year Computer Science starts with the computer version of "this is what a plus sign looks like. Next week, we'll talk about subtraction."
Wow
I thought that too, that's one huge class!!
The University of California is the world's leading public research university system. With 10 campuses, 5 medical centers, 3 national labs and a network of agricultural and natural resource centers, UC boasts large numbers of distinguished faculty and researchers in every field. Stands to reason that there would be 200+ students in a freshman class.
this
That poor kid, she may act ballsy now, but finding out something like this is not an easy thing to swallow and she must find strength to get past this and move on with her life.
So because she was brave about this it's an act? Different people respond different ways to things. Don't deny her that without knowing her.
TwiceRice23 You Asshat, read it right first!! No one said it's an act!!
TwiceRice23 lmao, shut up
someone always told me... anything you do in the dark will always come to light... it makes sense now... sorry for her