When humans are born do they inherit any genes or chromosomes that deal with language?
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It has never been proven whether language is a learned behavior or a natural tendency in human beings.  Regardless, no genes are tied to language - some do influence the capability to vocally speak though.  Interestingly enough, the Greeks believed that if you couldn't speak, you couldn't think.  In some ways, it is hard to imagine if it is possible to think without some kind of language element involved since it seems that all of our concepts are tied to a linguistic understanding - whether this language is vocal, sign, etc.\n\nEdit: To Agassi:  Agassi, you are completely misunderstanding what I'm saying, but I'll hold the fault of that to the limitations of the English language.  A PARTICULAR language may be learned culturally (i.e. "conditioning"), while language, in the GENERAL sense, may be a natural instinct (i.e. it is a natural, human yearning to communicate regardless of particular languages).  Hence the reason I used the term "language" as opposed to "a language."  In the French, it is the distinction between "langue" and "parole."  To simplify the question of language to "conditioning" cannot explain linguistic origins.  This is why some theorists say that we cannot ask the question of linguistic origins - because it throws their theories completely off and they cannot make sense of it.  Furthermore, with regards to the "part of the brain" comment - it has never been proven whether we affect the brain or the brain affects us.  It seems slightly more probable that we affect the brain, which would explain the increase in gray areas corresponding to the increase in learned languages.  This is why there are only theories pertaining to the acquisition of language.  To discredit what I say because you misinterpret is rather unfair.
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Eye color is a polyploid trait.  the actual genes occur on a couple of different chromosomes.  Sorry.  The human genome project has it mapped out which chromosomes they are my poster is at work.
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Great question, Sassy!  ( And, I'd just like to add that You're a Gorgeous Woman! Wooow!!! )\n\nYou "would" think that apes & gorillas could reproduce simple voice words...but, they cannot.  However, they do understand human words & visual symbols...They certainly understand the meaning of various vocal sounds between one another...Maybe the missing 2 chromosomes are essential for speech? )\n\nBirds that "talk" are just imitating/mimicking phrases that are repeated to them over-and-over again.
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Lots of humans do have extra or missing chromosomes.\nTo some it makes little difference.\nTo others it causes problems such as Downs Syndrome.\nMany will have some physical abnormality or trait - Many will also have some form of learning disability.\nMany will not survive the pregnancy and the baby will be lost before it is even born.
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Such characteristics are shaped by the chromosomes you receive from your parents. There's a gene for every color of eye, color of hair, thickness of hair, color of skin, thickness of skin, shape of eyes, weight, height, life span, character, etc.\n\nEvery person receives information for every part from 2 people, so it will have 2 probably eye color, hair color, etc. Even when only one will appear, that person still can give the other gene to a child.
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Very simply put, dominance and recessiveness are characteristics of genes.\n\nA dominant gene is expressed (shows up visibly in the offspring) when only one copy of the gene is present, on one chromosome from one parent. Let's say Tallness is a Dominant gene. If you have ONE tall parent, and get ONE copy of the Tall gene, you will probably be tall. If your tall parent was the son or daughter of a TALL and a SHORT person, they may only have ONE copy of that gene. If you get both SHORT chromosomes from Mom and DAD, you will NOT be tall. So you have 50 to 100 chance of being tall with a Dominant gene.\n\nNow, let's take the gene for BLUE eyes. It is recessive. You need TWO copies of this gene to get blue eyes. If Mom has blue eyes and Dad has blue eyes, and you get copies of both blue eye genes, you will have blue eyes. But if Mom has blue eyes, and Dad has brown eyes, you might end up with Brown eyes. Don't that make your blue eyes brown, so to speak.\n\nBUT..if Dad's mom had blue eyes and Dad's dad brown (your grandparents) and if Dad has one blue eye gene and one brown eye gene and has brown eyes AND if your Mom still has those blue peepers, you have a 1/4 chance of ending up with one blue eyed gene from AND a blue eyed gene from Dad and you will also have blue eyes like your Mum. Don't that make your brown eyes...blue?
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no, probably not. "intelligence" is not a trait that can be pin-pointed to the action of any gene or set of genes. \n\nthere is a set of genes (i can't remember precisely which at the moment...) that controls the size of the brain. it does this by signalling neuron progenitor cells to switch their mode of cell division at a certain time, thus controlling the amount of neurons produced. turning this switch just one cycle later would double the number of neurons produced! studies were conducted with rats, messing with this gene. they produced rats with significantly larger brains (more gyrification, actually), however they were severely mentally retarded! \n\nSo to answer your question, yes you can alter brain-structure by altering genes (i took a class about brain development last quarter and there are A LOT of different genes that control different aspects of how the brain is developed, but we don't understand all of the processes completely!), but it won't make the baby smarter, usually any changes have severely detrimental (if not lethal) consequences.
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Well, most of science, especially biology and medical terminology have to do with words from languages such as latin and greek. Therefore linguistics, the scientific study of language,  is essential to understanding how things are named in science. Without linguistics one would not know why a Eukaryote is called a Eukaryote. The word "Eu" means true in Greek, and Karyo means nut in Greek; and that's how they got Eukaryote, which means a "single-celled or multicellular organism whose cells contain a distinct membrane-bound nucleus" See the importance of linguistics in biology?
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That isn't quite so easy as it sounds.  There are several such family trees, as the various Chinese dialects form one, certain Native American languages another, and so on.  The one most people are familiar with is Indo-European, which includes English, the Germanic languages, the Slavic languages, Sanskrit (and thus most languages of India), Greek and the Romance languages (that is, Latin and its descendants).  Another such tree is Finno-Ugric, which includes Finnish and Hungarian (Magyar).
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gene I think is what you are looking for. Not sure the question makes sence.
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Both parents contribute.\n\nA/A parent can only pass along A gene \nA/O parent can pass along either A or O gene \nB/B parent can only pass along B gene \nB/O parent can pass along either B or O gene \nO/O parent can only pass along O gene \nAB parent can pass along either A or B gene \n\nalso in the source about half way down page there is a list of offspring possibilitys listed.
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A chromosome is a threadlike stand of DNA which controls your hereditary information (hair color, etc)
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The earliest human language was in Africa about 100,000 years ago.  We have, of course, no records of that language since writing was not invented for another 95,000 years.\n\nAnd to correct errors in previous answers:  Latin and Greek are NOT the ancestors of the world's languages.  Latin is the ancestor of about 20 modern languages of Europe and Greek is just the ancestor of Modern Greek.  Old Chinese is the ancestor of the half dozen Chinese languages.  There are about 200 Indo-European languages and about 6000 languages in the world, so most of the world's languages are NOT Indo-European.
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Yes. Genetic diseases are passed to future generations through the 23 pairs of chromosomes from each parent.\nGenetic and hereditary diseases are one and the same.
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genes, are made up of coded information. It is these codes or mutations of code that contain information that determine your characteristics.
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The capacity to learn language is innate.  But the actual language that is learned is not innate.  The language that is learned is based on the input to the child.  A child with no linguistic input still has the capacity, but since there is no input, there is no language learned.
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Humans have 46 chromosomes, not 26. \n\n23 come from mom, 23 from dad.