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RE: Help w/ Filial connotation...

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Posted by: Paul Hollander at Wed Jun 20 17:50:47 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]  
   

P stands for "parental". And it's the P generation, not the Pth generation.

F stands for "filial", which roughly means offspring.

These concepts came out of genetics research on the inheritance of various mutant genes. They are not very useful in general breeding, line breeding, selective breeding, etc. An arrow pedigree is more useful there. For information on arrow pedigrees, click on the link, go to the Contents page, and click on Advances in Classical Genetics, number 6 under Science & ....

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