I've just been studying genetics, so this idea popped into my head when I read "Spread the Joy" and of course, in this case, as all the kids are happy little yellow blobs, it's totally the mom's fault, because the dad is totally blue and glum.


Hope you like it :D

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haha 5$

Okay, it took me a second to figure this out. Apparently, this drawing is about a happy mom and gloomy dad having a kid. Since they're all happy (because the happy gene is dominant because it capitalized), then it must be the mom's gene that makes them that way. So it's her fault.

That totally does not come across in the drawing at all. And happiness/sadness isn't a gene. So it couldn't be spread to the kids anyway. Even so, this needs some work just so the point can get across.

I saw this design and the first thing that popped into my mind was Gregor Mendel's pea plant experiment. LOL.

lol yes...Greg's peas...totally.


@ DaStarBillie.........the mom is "spreading the joy" by having the dominant alleles and passing them onto her kids, and ofc happieness/sadness isn't a gene, it's just a fun idea based on a genetic cross diagram, I think the point is actually very clear...maybe not so much for people who haven't studied cross diagrams etc, but I'm a biology geek so it makes sense to me. LOL i don't get why you hate the idea so much :s

reminds me of zoloft...

Haha, nice!

hehehe, I get it!

hmm, it took me a little while to figure this one out, but when I did, I thought it was pretty neat

I thought Zoloft, too.

DaStar actually interpreted your cross correctly. Your cross is set up correctly, but you've made no indication as to what trait (technically gene) that is involved. Label, label, label!!!! I think a big point of the confusion comes from the text that says it's all your fault mom. How that corresponds to passing down happiness makes no sense. Upon reading the text I assummed that the mother was affected with a dominant disease state and the children were all carriers because of her. The different hair styles could also be the trait of interest that is being crossed.

Here's a tip for the aspiring biologists/chemists. Don't assume anything unless explicitly told. Don't assume that others will understand your data/report. In this case the cross made perfect sense to you because you were the one who thought of it. You can't look at it objectively and fix it, because if you say where it was confusing, you would have already corrected it.

And label! :) Good idea though!

put it in a punit square, and use X's and Y's (to show that the happiness/sadness trait is sex linked).

I have no effing clue...

i got it.
i think its cute
$4

I could spend three pages just listing the reasons why this is stupid.

I HATE DOING THESE.

yea im used to doing the punit squares, that might read better.

Oh... Got it. But it is still like a gay pumpkin.

heh. this would be fun to wear. I like being a geek. 4$

I LIKE IT!! i would so totally get this for my bio teacher if he wasn't a fat lazy jerk.

i think that it should be the other way around, that the father has the sad dominant gene, and passes it to his kids.. because 'fault' implies a negative meaning..

that way it would fit better with the text too! seeing that the kids are blue, unhappy and glum, it makes more sense when they grumble and say "it's all your fault!!" but otherwise, a good idea!

okay so i get the jist of what you are doing and the play on an idea of sorts. what i dont get is why 'spreading happiness' should be anyones "fault"?

ok i understood what you were getting at since i took biology in 7th grade but uh seriously happiness and sadness aren't passed down by genes but besides that i don't understand how passing down happiness is a fault [if it were possible to pass down happiness from genes]. i gives you a 1 because this is lame.

Interesting

no go

why is it your Mom's fault?
all the kids are the same Hh...

if you did Hh x Hh ... would be more cool

what the fuck is that.. no offence

kk, i like it :D

i like this. =]

I work in a genetics lab so the idea was pretty cute to me. It would be nice to be wearing this shirt when people ask me what I do and they don't understand.

haploid came to mind, but I can't remember why, it was years ago.

Simple and clever... Hope the mom didn't spread too much 'joy' if you get what I'm saying... muahaha!

Definitely zoloft

i like. :) The people on this site over-analyze too much

I love the concept (the genetic chart).

I love how the one person who actually obviously has studied university genetics likes this shirt.
Who cares if happiness is genetic or not (btw, depression is linked to genetics) its still a cute idea and it makes sense to most people. I've purchased heaps of shirts off this site that i've had to explain to people - communist party to name an obvious one, whats one more shirt that needs an explaination to the 10% of the population who never did genetics at high school?
and furthermore, this is only the 4th design today that i'm going to give more than 1/5, how can people rip into the few good designs and then say that the terrible designs are worth a 5?

might work better in a punnett's square for clarity.

lol, i love how simple this shirt is compared to how complicated these comments are. i give it a 4

Haha, Yea, overanalyzing to the EXTREME. FOR THE LAST TIME I KNOW THAT HAPPINESS ISN'T CAUSED BY GENES. (seriously, I am NOT that stupid).


I thought about a punnet square, but I prefer these, personal choice I guess...that and the sex linked thing? I didn't intend it to look as though it was sex linked, and I just chose the mom to be happy because I'm female. XD.

I can see where people would thing that "fault" is not an appropriate word, my meaning was that it was the mom's dominant "genes" (no not actual genes for those that think I don't have a smidge of sense) that made the kids happy all the time...so they were whinging at the mom for this fact, in a lighthearted manner of course.


But yes, overanalysis people. Either you like it or you don't, you agree or you don't.

*think

This is really funny... I like Punnett. I thought of the square the other day when someone said they saw an albino squirel.

thats fantastic,reminds me of all those hours studying biology!
great tee!

I like it, I also remember this bio lesson. Cute.

i think where the confusing/problem comes in, is that the word 'fault' has a negative connotation and typically means 'bad'. most people don't understand why you are saying it is 'bad' (or fault) to make people happy. the problem isn't with your diagram, it's very cute, it's just very unclear what you are trying to say. had the text not been submitted, i think almost everyone would have understood what you meant by the diagram alone, with or without any genetic knowledge. i still love this idea, and i love the fact they look like zoloft commercials even if it was unintentional. i'm assuming you used 'H' as your symbol to represent happiness? that's very cute and i'm impressed by your ability to really tie in the details. all you need is to add a little key that says H = happy; h = sad (or whatever descriptor you want to use). i'd love to see you wait a few weeks, let it get lost in all the submissions and then resubmit with the allelic key and no text. let me know if that doesn't make sense or if you want any help. again, good job.

H is the dominant for Hapiness,

and h is the recessive, which is sad, right?

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I guess I'm being picky but usually trees are done with straight lines. (see logo here http://www.bioethics.org.uk/) But like I said I'm just being nit picky. I love it and think its great. $5

I'm a bio geek too, and I love it.

the diagram is great - just right. But I agree the text is off. "cheers mum" or something.

why is everyone so hung up on the text?? if you use your eyes, you will see that THE TEXT ISNT ON THE SHIRT, so really, whats the big deal?? yeesh

I studied uni genetics and would def buy yhis. love it :)