How to figure out your child's religion with a Punnet Square

6/8/01
Punnet square determining religion: Fatal?
No, it isn't but I have discovered that it is possible to figure your child's religion before they're born, with a Punnet Square! Now for most of you too braindead during science class to not remember what a punnet square is, it is a chart developed by Reginald C. Punnet (of course he names it after himself). The punnet square is used to show the possible gene combination in a cross between two organisms. Now for example a male (XY) and woman (XX) have kids here's how the punnet square works:


   X  Y
X  xx|xy
X  xx|xy

You see they match together and look there's a 50/50 chance of having a boy or a girl. But what I have figured out is the same works for figuring out the religion of your children. How you ask? Here's the example a purebreed Jewish man (JJ) has kids with and a catholic woman (JC) now the charestic for religion can only be held on the male chromosome (this also works for last names after marriage) so the females have a chromosome to mask it (notice how the girl has the JC for catholic and judiasm because they take longer to make up thier minds) so they can mask a gene for religion. Now here's where the punnet square is used:


   J  J
J  jj|jj
C  cj|cj

As you can see the end result still (like always) leaves a 50% chance of having a boy or girl. So I hope this method will help you make sure your children aren't satan worshipers (which has a 1% chance). Thanks for your time, Matt-o-Mac.

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