Thanks, Jeff.
I agree with that also. To take it a little further and continue with your analogy, I think you may even carry some Swedish genes that you're not expressing. This can be seen with multiple children from the same parents. They NEVER look exactly the same and often show traits that the parents don't. For instance, we often see in humans something like this:
an individual has a child that doesn't look anything like them but the offspring of that child look like the original individual (their grandparent). You can find cousins that look more similar to each other than they do to their siblings. I believe that the genes are often there but simply not expressed AND not governed by the same rules that govern traits that are simple recessive, dominant, etc.. I believe that some genes are simply just random. You can get kids that are taller than BOTH of their parents. They can be there hidden and sometimes express themselves and sometimes not either because they're governed by rules that are not yet capable of understanding or that they're just simply random and not governed by any rules at all. Does that make sense?
You can even see this variation in litters of snakes. You can breed to suris together and get a great deal of variation within the same litter. Some may have big peaks and bright tails while others don't. They don't all look the same, but the "ingredients" still seem to be there.
Thanks again, Jeff!
Aaron

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