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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• Completely Unscientific Assumptions...................... much more............ - Hoppy, Fri Feb 18 07:41:27 2005
• exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of the - CE, Fri Feb 18 08:04:43 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of the - PBM, Fri Feb 18 09:02:31 2005
• RE: regarding locality bred boas and their usefulness in science... - g.gartner, Fri Feb 18 12:33:54 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of th - chaoscat, Fri Feb 18 16:02:51 2005
• well maybe I should read a few books and then perform open heart surgery - CE, Fri Feb 18 16:32:25 2005
• RE: well maybe I should read a few books and then perform open heart surger - chaoscat, Fri Feb 18 16:37:20 2005
• RE: well maybe I should read a few books and then perform open heart surger - callmedaddie, Fri Feb 18 16:59:39 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of th - callmedaddie, Fri Feb 18 16:53:22 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of th - chaoscat, Fri Feb 18 17:01:48 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of th - callmedaddie, Fri Feb 18 17:16:03 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of th - chaoscat, Fri Feb 18 17:39:17 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of th - callmedaddie, Fri Feb 18 17:57:31 2005
• RE: exactly!!! everybody wants to be a true herpetologist without any of th - chaoscat, Fri Feb 18 18:49:43 2005
• RE: what constitutes a herpetologist? Plus, issues of scale in the great boa debate! - g.gartner, Fri Feb 18 18:53:22 2005
• Chaoscat.... - callmedaddie, Fri Feb 18 17:33:00 2005
• RE: Chaoscat.... - chaoscat, Fri Feb 18 17:52:09 2005
• Chaoscat.... - chicagopsych, Fri Feb 18 20:41:03 2005
• Dang it, Jim, why did you have to go and.... - sonoranreptile, Fri Feb 18 08:05:39 2005
• great post!.......more - chicagopsych, Fri Feb 18 09:58:51 2005
• I'm het for, "My Mom." Proven genetics...roflmao - snakepimp, Sat Feb 19 20:48:31 2005
• I am not a Phd, but ... *PIC* - snakepimp, Mon Feb 21 09:35:06 2005
• RE: I am not a Phd., but ... I do have poor punctuation. n/p - snakepimp, Mon Feb 21 09:36:10 2005
• I agree 100%, but your clear, pure logic is probably due to you being into - tcdrover, Fri Feb 18 10:04:30 2005
• Both agree and disagree - callmedaddie, Fri Feb 18 13:30:27 2005