Fascinating point about parents — knowing their genome means you could in principle know the entire potential configuration space of all their (real or hypothetical) offsprings' genomes.
Even if we ignore crossovers, potential configuration space for genotype is very very large, 2^46. Add crossovers and mutations and variations in genotype is practically infinite. Of course how that maps to variation in phenotype is a complex issue.
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Fascinating point about parents — knowing their genome means you could in principle know the entire potential configuration space of all their (real or hypothetical) offsprings' genomes.
Even if we ignore crossovers, potential configuration space for genotype is very very large, 2^46. Add crossovers and mutations and variations in genotype is practically infinite. Of course how that maps to variation in phenotype is a complex issue.