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The Lovings

The Lovings

The film focuses on the battle to overturn laws against mixed-race marriages. Seven years after a marriage that Virginia deemed illegal. The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state’s […]

Polygenic Inheritance

Polygenic Inheritance

Polygenic inheritance occurs when one characteristic is controlled by two or more genes. Often the genes are large in quantity but small in effect. Examples of human polygenic inheritance are height, skin color, eye color and weight.   GREAT POLYGENIC INHERITANCE VIDEO REEL>   https://archive.org/details/skindoc Based on the true story of Sandra Laing, a light-skinned, African […]