"Well, I would say that as a "working" definition, that works pretty well but is in general a bad genetic definition of what a phenotype is."



I wasn't trying to define the phenotype. One would hope anybody trying to breed plants or animals for specific traits would already know the rudiments of genetics.



I am rather concerned about what one finds on the internet with regard to snake genetics. I googled up a list of websites, the first page of which were atrocious. The top one was using B for black and b for white. To begin with, anybody who's bred snakes knows that black is NOT the genetic opposite for white. Secondly, at least in ratsnakes, Black is not dominant to nonblack. My guess is that it is polygenic but I won't find out until I get F2 progeny from my orange x black cross. Paul Hollander did have some cornsnake genetics on the web - with proper gene symbols and proper phenotype descriptions to go with them - but I can't seem to find it. Considering Paul's geneticist father was a stickler for proper terminology, we can be sure whatever Paul has done has been done right. If we can, we need to get it on the web and extend it other species and to hybrids.



Bigfoot

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