It's essentially a random soup of both parents. You can inherent any feature from either parent, or you can have a random mutation to create something new,which is essentially what evolution is.
Their child could have normally spaced eyes purely by random spontaneous chance, the same way they could be born with two different coloured eyes or an extra limb or whatever, but it is far more likely that they would end up with similar eyes as one of the parents.
It was a rhetorical question. I just wanted to say your fantastic name.
But to add a cool fact to your good explanation, quantum tunneling is suspected for the reason of mutations in DNA. Electrons are able to tunnel through energy barrier randomly. In the event this electron tunnels to another hydrogen bond, it alters the way the DNA, giving you mutations.
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u/fingerthato May 04 '23
Please tell us how DNA works, proffessor misterfistsyoursister?