misconstrue
v misconstrue [ miskən struː]
(formal) to misunderstand; to interpret wrongly That's not what she meant, her statement was misconstrued.
So the original argument of Mr. Joe C. is that Kevin “misunderstood” what was going on with the granite gene.
So let’s just stop right there and contemplate for a moment. The accusation here is that someone who is working with genetics may have misunderstood why something happened. That is ridiculous and silly by it itself, but let me get to my point.
I have a hypothesis about how the behavior of the granite gene might have been slightly misunderstood here.
By the way, a hypothesis, Joe C., is when you make an educated guess about something. It is really a questioning statement. This is what scientific discovery is based on. (Rather than pretending to know things up front, and then saying you will know after your eggs hatch). A Hypothesis, Joe, is what you do if you are trying to make what you consider to be an educated guess about something rather than pretending to know it.
Anyway my hypothesis is that the granite gene became “linked” to the real HG Woma simply because it is sitting close in proximity to the HG Woma on the chromosome. Kevin may have “misconstrued” this information by saying they were “attached” to each other, rather than that they are “linked.”
The idea with linkage is that, the more likely two traits are to being inherited together, the closer they must be sitting next to each other on a chromosome.
Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_linkage
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-and-types-of-genetic-linkage-500
So there you are Joe – a hypothesis that explains why granite and hidden gene woma tend to be inherited together so much of the time. Not always, but most of the time.
Of course I am not claiming to know this to be true simply because I typed it, but it would explain what is going on if it is correct.
Chad Leever
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