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Originally Posted by Masochistic Chia Pet
people are being born with more than 46 chromosomes now so why is this impossible. have you ever talked to an autistic person before but its scary how much they can remember. their mental capacity is insane. but without the last of the 48 chromosomes needed they are incapable of doing regular human activities.
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What in the world are you talking about? Autistics only have 46. They believe the genes responsible for autism are located in
"two regions on chromosomes 2 and 7 contain[ing] genes that are involved with autism. Likely locations for autism-related genes were also found on chromosomes 16 and 17" http://www.indegene.com/Psy/Home/indPsy_Ind_News_05-09-2001_1.asp
The only people born with more than 46 genes are people whose sex genes have increased (as with Turner X syndrome) or they have duplicates of one of the genes that already exist (Like trisomies, as in Down Syndromes trisomy 21). Years ago there was a belief that humans had 48 chromosomes because all large hominids had 48, but once more exact staining techniques were developed, they discovered that we had 46; 22 autonomal chromosomes and 2 sex chromosomes.