Sure,...that and lots of other things 'can", and will be inherited, but to know beyond a doubt as to what was the cause of something such as kinks takes a good many years to prove either way.

Also, to very accurately control these experiments can really become a big factor too.

Say you had all kinked babies for several years in a row. Was it truly genetic?, or could the temps have been a bit too high in all these scenario's?.

And at exactly what point temperature-wise did any noticable change occur(if any)?.

there is no doubt in my mind that kinks can easily be from a genetic inheritance, just like spinal bifida, dwarfism, diabetes, cancer or anything else.

All I know though with any plausability, is that most spinal kinks seem to be from temps being too high in incubation. I wonder why excessive heat makes the bones/vertebrae themselves grow abnormally??, and to a lesser degree, could easily be an inherited factor.

Now although this link I am posting is regarding Salmon, and not snakes, one can use their own good judgement to see a very plausable correlation here. I thought this was pretty interesting myself. And certainly there is probably much more on bone deformaties caused by higher temps elsewhere on the net too.
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• Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 17:32:47 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - fliptop, Tue Jul 6 18:00:42 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 18:28:04 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - Bluerosy, Tue Jul 6 18:44:43 2010
• It's just with this snake - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 18:52:31 2010
• A quote from Bill Love. - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:34:48 2010
• RE: A quote from Bill Love. - Jlassiter, Tue Jul 6 19:37:55 2010
• I know - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:45:05 2010
• EXACTLY WHAT I SAID! - DMong, Tue Jul 6 19:58:55 2010
• Yup almost word for word. n/p - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 20:02:37 2010
• RE: It's just with this snake - DMong, Tue Jul 6 19:55:06 2010
• I think that's the time 9:47 - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:58:44 2010
• Yeah it's time. n/p - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:59:38 2010
• LMAO!! - DMong, Tue Jul 6 20:09:15 2010
• That's hilarious! - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 20:13:06 2010
• RE: That's hilarious! - DMong, Tue Jul 6 20:17:26 2010
• wrong! - DMong, Tue Jul 6 20:03:52 2010
• I went and physically checked - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 20:08:41 2010
• O.K. let's.... - CrimsonKing, Tue Jul 6 20:12:39 2010
• That's a good thought - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 20:15:23 2010
• RE: That's a good thought - CrimsonKing, Tue Jul 6 20:24:04 2010
• RE: That's a good thought - DMong, Tue Jul 6 20:44:06 2010
• RE: That's a good thought - Bluerosy, Tue Jul 6 23:42:44 2010
• RE: That's a good thought - DMong, Wed Jul 7 00:41:55 2010
• How many..... - a153fish, Wed Jul 7 09:18:03 2010
• RE: How many..... - DMong, Wed Jul 7 11:24:40 2010
• Just from memory - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 22:13:52 2010
• Thats his Anal thermometer! NP - Jeff Schofield, Wed Jul 7 11:41:56 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - jeff schofield, Tue Jul 6 18:49:47 2010
• Not temps - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:14:10 2010
• RE: Not temps - Bluerosy, Tue Jul 6 19:24:37 2010
• All eat mice? - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:37:22 2010
• RE: All eat mice? - DMong, Tue Jul 6 21:07:42 2010
• This Year - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 22:20:05 2010
• RE: This Year - DMong, Tue Jul 6 23:20:13 2010
• Yeah Your right. - a153fish, Wed Jul 7 09:15:41 2010
• RE: Yeah Your right. - DMong, Wed Jul 7 11:31:09 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - DMong, Tue Jul 6 19:47:42 2010
• That was my other posts question. - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:54:01 2010
• Oh about temps - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:55:55 2010
• RE: Oh about temps - DMong, Tue Jul 6 20:29:22 2010
• RE: Oh about temps - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 21:09:20 2010
• RE: Oh about temps - DMong, Tue Jul 6 21:15:06 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - DMong, Tue Jul 6 18:56:13 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - Bluerosy, Tue Jul 6 19:09:06 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - DMong, Tue Jul 6 19:38:30 2010
• Why not the others? - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 19:51:33 2010
• RE: Why not the others? - DMong, Tue Jul 6 20:40:22 2010
• I guess I will ... - a153fish, Tue Jul 6 22:25:32 2010
• RE: I guess I will ... - DMong, Tue Jul 6 23:39:02 2010
• RE: I guess I will ... - Bluerosy, Tue Jul 6 23:55:39 2010
• I tried with a Bubblegum Rat - a153fish, Wed Jul 7 09:12:47 2010
• Not always a bad thing - markg, Wed Jul 7 13:48:51 2010
• RE: Spinal kinks! Are they genetic? - thomas davis, Wed Jul 7 17:18:01 2010
• Right - a153fish, Wed Jul 7 20:39:49 2010