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.
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 can confirm I took public high school biology and did not learn about Punnett squares until my freshman year of college.
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
My son texted one day asking my blood type. I told him B+. He said that his Dad had to be A- because he tested AB-. I said, well then that's what he has because I am 100% positive that he is your father. Then I thought, what if some poor kid in high school in a tiny town in MS discovered that his dad is not really his dad from science class in 10th grade? Well, that shit really happens.
My dad grew up believing he was Metis and after doing a DNA test found out he's mostly Irish. Not a drop of Metis in him. He's so mad. Now the rest of us are getting the tests to find out who is really what. This is sad that the secret kept ended up with her parents divorcing, but also unfair of her mom to do that to her. Wow.
What is Metis?
European + Indigenous people descendants in Canada.
Maybe only because I1m not Canadian but it confuses me because irish people are european.
the first Europeans to populate Canada were French = that is why Metise (French for mixed race)
Most of the responses are saying how shitty biology is for this, but in reality it's the mother that's shitty... Don't cheat. What a concept!
Science and reality don't care about feelings. Hell, people, facts cannot be "shitty"....... Just true or false.
Or alternate.
OH MY GOSH, my biology professor was in the same lecture, and it's his favorite story ever! He tells his classes this every year
JFC. Just goes to show that your dishonesty will come back to bite you eventually.
It was an awful way to find out, but better now than down the road. That mother is a white and a liar and she deserves to be dumped and divorced. I just hope the girl and her father can keep their relationship.
I mean to say, "a whore and a liar". Blasted autocorrect.
🤣 Sorry, this made me chuckle too much "a white and a liar"! History jokes overloading in my brain.
I found it interesting that one of the twitter comments blamed the biology class for the break up of homes and not the infidelity!!
The tweets show the professor was a woman, so a different picture with the headline would have been better. Great story, though!
Yaaassss. I caught that too.
Just found a niece I never knew about because of AncestryDNA testing. She's a wonderful person.
That's so nice that you reached out to her!
Similar thing happened in my HS Biology class. Teacher had us bring in urine samples to observe under the microscope. One girl spotted something that wasn't in the literature to look for. Yep she was pregnant and the Teacher was the first one to inform her.
I can't believe they made you examine pee! Lol
I hope that she stays close to the man who raised her, and that he has the maturity to not blame her.
The only her that gets blamed is the whore mother
Plot twist : the prof is her uncle/father 's twin
Plot twist twist: all of that has really happened, but also the children were switched in the hospital when they were newborns.
Plot twist twist twist : the girl wants to fix history, travels back in time to prevent her mother do what she did Something goes wrong and she is stuck in the '30: lives a good life and gives birth to a child, that child is the prof
Whoa.. you guys are good. Hold on while I make some popcorn!
I am AB+. My ex-wife is O-. My daughter insisted for years that she was O+. I told her that was impossible. She insisted. I said we could get a DNA test to settle this. She didn't want to, insisted that her mom would never have cheated on me, but still insisted she was O- despite that being an impossibility. Finally, she donated blood when she turned 18. Guess what? A-. She's probably mine. Science wins again.
Poor kid. Poor father too. Cheating sucks people. Stop it.
The very reason these kind of experiments are no longer carried out in high schools in Australia.
Because cheating wives banned it? There is no moral system which in it is considered to be right.
I like Bio. It's fun. Def more so than Physics. At least for me
getting divorced after 21 yrs from the fling... uh, unless it's still going on, let it go.
and send your stepbrother a bill. heehee.
Maybe it was the fact she had had twenty-one years to tell him but never did.
Sad story....
We had a similar story from our biology school teacher - he was teaching about the ability to roll your tongue is a dominant trait, and a kid went home, found neither of his parents could roll their tongues, and that's when they had to confess he was adopted as a baby
Huh, remember learning that. I can and my parents can't, but I'm not adopted unless everyone is crazy good at keeping secrets!
I think it's recessive, so they might be "carriers."
All of those situations are bad but it's a shame those experiments were discontinued because of human lies and shenanigans.
I wouldn't mind finding out I have a different dad..... as long as the new one turns out to be really, really rich or royalty or something
I would just like to say that, even though the girl may or may not consider him her dad any more- some of us do have fathers/mothers/parents that are not biologically related to us. Obvi the lying didn't work out so well, but for those of us that do have parents that are not related to us by blood- it is still possible for some of us to consider them "real" family.
“Biology is a major cause of broken homes.” No immorality is.
Truth will out. Always be truthful, or it will bite you in the butt.
"Biology is the major cause of broken homes." Well, yes. And not the bio class, either.
Now what? Ban biology?
Shit happens.......
Maybe if the cheatin' whore had realized that her bowels can't get pregnant.
It's not necessary true. There are cases (but very very rare cases) of structural mutation. There was per example a japanese Child with Type 00 that had a biological mother with Type AB. So in biology there is no such thing as impossibility, because there might be a mutation. But the cases are rare enough that normaly a "cheating parent" is the better explanation. To the study about the japanese child, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685204/
The plot of the Whoopi Goldberg / Ted Danson movie Made in America comes to life...
people will always find out what you have done no matter what
Unfaithful morons, smh
That's it. I'm taking bio.
Moral of the story: if you're going to have an affair, don't encourage your kid to take an interest in biology!
all one has to do is look in a mirror.. i have my dad's nose and my mom's eyes.
The eye color thing though...that one can trip you up. I have brown eyes, so does my son's father. Our son? Crystal blue eyes. In laws both had brown eyes. My mother has green eyes, her parents had blue eyes. My father his parents, all brown eyes. So eye color CAN skip generations!
Scrolling up rather quickly the intro pic looked rather questionable lol
I hope the student got a pass for the lesson.
Well...shit. Oops.
This sort of lie/deception should be a punishable crime. Why are women allowed to get away with causing this kind of harm?
Same reason men are. Jackass.
This sounds like the plot of Made in America w/Whoopi Goldberg.
Perhaps.....but I saw this about once a year as a maternity nurse.
My dad isn't my biological dad, but he does have blue eyes and so do I. The blood type thing though...... I have no clue what his blood type is lol
Lots of gullible people on Bored Panda who will believe this story.
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If anything. It also brings to light the nativity
I'm glad for family resemblance...never any doubts, even as an angsty teen. Same with my kid.
Hey the photo should be of a FEMALE bio prof. The tweets says “she drew”! This is a chance to change assumptions that biology profs are all male.
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Why did you assume gender of person on the picture? Maybe this person goes by "she"? Have you consider that? ! This is a chance to change assumptions that woman all have to have femal body /this is ironic post, obviously
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OMG! This is why I wanted to take biology! ;-; XDDDDD Plus, isn't it better for her to know than for her not to know? What does that make her real dad's blood type?
B or AB.
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My parents have grey and green eyes, respectively and my brother has brown. He's always been the special little golden child of our mother. Now I just wonder why exactly.
Blood types are far easier genetics-wise. You have one single gene for blood type, but you have at least three for eye colour, that can interfere with each other or can mutate. Two light-eyed parents CAN have brown-eyed children. It's rare, but not impossible.
Thank you. It has been eating me for a while.
What colour eyes does your mailman have ?
She was a female.
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I know I should be serious about this and i feel so sorry for that poor girl but If that ever happened to me then, I might actually do the tide pod challenge.
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Just another Bored Panda fake story.
How can you tell?
Give it up, Daniel. It seems like every time I see one of your comments, you are calling the post fake. Just stop, man.
I've heard this story about 20 years ago in Finland. An old urban legend, yet plausible.
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And why did this student think they had the right to upload this on social media for a bit of measly attention?
It's not like the persons involved can be identified from this.
Everybody has to right to upload
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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.
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 can confirm I took public high school biology and did not learn about Punnett squares until my freshman year of college.
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
My son texted one day asking my blood type. I told him B+. He said that his Dad had to be A- because he tested AB-. I said, well then that's what he has because I am 100% positive that he is your father. Then I thought, what if some poor kid in high school in a tiny town in MS discovered that his dad is not really his dad from science class in 10th grade? Well, that shit really happens.
My dad grew up believing he was Metis and after doing a DNA test found out he's mostly Irish. Not a drop of Metis in him. He's so mad. Now the rest of us are getting the tests to find out who is really what. This is sad that the secret kept ended up with her parents divorcing, but also unfair of her mom to do that to her. Wow.
What is Metis?
European + Indigenous people descendants in Canada.
Maybe only because I1m not Canadian but it confuses me because irish people are european.
the first Europeans to populate Canada were French = that is why Metise (French for mixed race)
Most of the responses are saying how shitty biology is for this, but in reality it's the mother that's shitty... Don't cheat. What a concept!
Science and reality don't care about feelings. Hell, people, facts cannot be "shitty"....... Just true or false.
Or alternate.
OH MY GOSH, my biology professor was in the same lecture, and it's his favorite story ever! He tells his classes this every year
JFC. Just goes to show that your dishonesty will come back to bite you eventually.
It was an awful way to find out, but better now than down the road. That mother is a white and a liar and she deserves to be dumped and divorced. I just hope the girl and her father can keep their relationship.
I mean to say, "a whore and a liar". Blasted autocorrect.
🤣 Sorry, this made me chuckle too much "a white and a liar"! History jokes overloading in my brain.
I found it interesting that one of the twitter comments blamed the biology class for the break up of homes and not the infidelity!!
The tweets show the professor was a woman, so a different picture with the headline would have been better. Great story, though!
Yaaassss. I caught that too.
Just found a niece I never knew about because of AncestryDNA testing. She's a wonderful person.
That's so nice that you reached out to her!
Similar thing happened in my HS Biology class. Teacher had us bring in urine samples to observe under the microscope. One girl spotted something that wasn't in the literature to look for. Yep she was pregnant and the Teacher was the first one to inform her.
I can't believe they made you examine pee! Lol
I hope that she stays close to the man who raised her, and that he has the maturity to not blame her.
The only her that gets blamed is the whore mother
Plot twist : the prof is her uncle/father 's twin
Plot twist twist: all of that has really happened, but also the children were switched in the hospital when they were newborns.
Plot twist twist twist : the girl wants to fix history, travels back in time to prevent her mother do what she did Something goes wrong and she is stuck in the '30: lives a good life and gives birth to a child, that child is the prof
Whoa.. you guys are good. Hold on while I make some popcorn!
I am AB+. My ex-wife is O-. My daughter insisted for years that she was O+. I told her that was impossible. She insisted. I said we could get a DNA test to settle this. She didn't want to, insisted that her mom would never have cheated on me, but still insisted she was O- despite that being an impossibility. Finally, she donated blood when she turned 18. Guess what? A-. She's probably mine. Science wins again.
Poor kid. Poor father too. Cheating sucks people. Stop it.
The very reason these kind of experiments are no longer carried out in high schools in Australia.
Because cheating wives banned it? There is no moral system which in it is considered to be right.
I like Bio. It's fun. Def more so than Physics. At least for me
getting divorced after 21 yrs from the fling... uh, unless it's still going on, let it go.
and send your stepbrother a bill. heehee.
Maybe it was the fact she had had twenty-one years to tell him but never did.
Sad story....
We had a similar story from our biology school teacher - he was teaching about the ability to roll your tongue is a dominant trait, and a kid went home, found neither of his parents could roll their tongues, and that's when they had to confess he was adopted as a baby
Huh, remember learning that. I can and my parents can't, but I'm not adopted unless everyone is crazy good at keeping secrets!
I think it's recessive, so they might be "carriers."
All of those situations are bad but it's a shame those experiments were discontinued because of human lies and shenanigans.
I wouldn't mind finding out I have a different dad..... as long as the new one turns out to be really, really rich or royalty or something
I would just like to say that, even though the girl may or may not consider him her dad any more- some of us do have fathers/mothers/parents that are not biologically related to us. Obvi the lying didn't work out so well, but for those of us that do have parents that are not related to us by blood- it is still possible for some of us to consider them "real" family.
“Biology is a major cause of broken homes.” No immorality is.
Truth will out. Always be truthful, or it will bite you in the butt.
"Biology is the major cause of broken homes." Well, yes. And not the bio class, either.
Now what? Ban biology?
Shit happens.......
Maybe if the cheatin' whore had realized that her bowels can't get pregnant.
It's not necessary true. There are cases (but very very rare cases) of structural mutation. There was per example a japanese Child with Type 00 that had a biological mother with Type AB. So in biology there is no such thing as impossibility, because there might be a mutation. But the cases are rare enough that normaly a "cheating parent" is the better explanation. To the study about the japanese child, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1685204/
The plot of the Whoopi Goldberg / Ted Danson movie Made in America comes to life...
people will always find out what you have done no matter what
Unfaithful morons, smh
That's it. I'm taking bio.
Moral of the story: if you're going to have an affair, don't encourage your kid to take an interest in biology!
all one has to do is look in a mirror.. i have my dad's nose and my mom's eyes.
The eye color thing though...that one can trip you up. I have brown eyes, so does my son's father. Our son? Crystal blue eyes. In laws both had brown eyes. My mother has green eyes, her parents had blue eyes. My father his parents, all brown eyes. So eye color CAN skip generations!
Scrolling up rather quickly the intro pic looked rather questionable lol
I hope the student got a pass for the lesson.
Well...shit. Oops.
This sort of lie/deception should be a punishable crime. Why are women allowed to get away with causing this kind of harm?
Same reason men are. Jackass.
This sounds like the plot of Made in America w/Whoopi Goldberg.
Perhaps.....but I saw this about once a year as a maternity nurse.
My dad isn't my biological dad, but he does have blue eyes and so do I. The blood type thing though...... I have no clue what his blood type is lol
Lots of gullible people on Bored Panda who will believe this story.
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If anything. It also brings to light the nativity
I'm glad for family resemblance...never any doubts, even as an angsty teen. Same with my kid.
Hey the photo should be of a FEMALE bio prof. The tweets says “she drew”! This is a chance to change assumptions that biology profs are all male.
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Why did you assume gender of person on the picture? Maybe this person goes by "she"? Have you consider that? ! This is a chance to change assumptions that woman all have to have femal body /this is ironic post, obviously
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OMG! This is why I wanted to take biology! ;-; XDDDDD Plus, isn't it better for her to know than for her not to know? What does that make her real dad's blood type?
B or AB.
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My parents have grey and green eyes, respectively and my brother has brown. He's always been the special little golden child of our mother. Now I just wonder why exactly.
Blood types are far easier genetics-wise. You have one single gene for blood type, but you have at least three for eye colour, that can interfere with each other or can mutate. Two light-eyed parents CAN have brown-eyed children. It's rare, but not impossible.
Thank you. It has been eating me for a while.
What colour eyes does your mailman have ?
She was a female.
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I know I should be serious about this and i feel so sorry for that poor girl but If that ever happened to me then, I might actually do the tide pod challenge.
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Just another Bored Panda fake story.
How can you tell?
Give it up, Daniel. It seems like every time I see one of your comments, you are calling the post fake. Just stop, man.
I've heard this story about 20 years ago in Finland. An old urban legend, yet plausible.
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And why did this student think they had the right to upload this on social media for a bit of measly attention?
It's not like the persons involved can be identified from this.
Everybody has to right to upload
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