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chicagopsych
at Fri Feb 18 09:58:51 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by chicagopsych ]
You are completely correct. I have even seen breeders argue with the real scientists (biologists). The whole hypo gene is a good example. The gene expresses its self every time it is present thus making it dominant, not co-dominant, like brown eyes in humans. If one parent is a normal and the other parent a hypo the resulting hypo offspring are Hets (heterogeneous just means different as in two different genes). Yet so many will argue until they die that are no Het hypos. Another funny one is the phrase “proven genetic.” If a parent passes traits to its offspring then those traits are genetic (carried in the genes). Therefore selective line breeding still makes for “genetic” traits. There are many other examples of herpers changing the meaning of terms. Oh well. By the way I am one of those doctorate scientists, but I would much rather be one of the rock stars Hoppy eludes to : ) However, by no means am I a biologist.
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great post!.......more - chicagopsych, Fri Feb 18 09:58:51 2005