Re: Co-dominance and incomplete dominance
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Originally Posted by
RandyRemington
So how would you tell if the heterozygous white\\red flower was really pink or just individual white and red dots so small and close together that it just looks pink?
I'm not so sure we can really tell which is right (co-dominant or incomplete dominant) for ball python morphs.
This goes along with the point I'm trying to make. The names aren't perfect.
I suppose with the flower question, a scientist could get a powerful microscope, or perhaps do some testing of what is going on in the biochemistry of the flower to produce the color.
But what about a flower that the het form, instead of being pink, turns out yellow? What would we call that?
That is sort of what we have with some of the BP morphs. Look at mojaves. The mojave coloration is neither a blending of the BEL with a normal, which would create a pale colored snake, nor a side by side representation of BEL & normal, which would look more like a pied. So I don't think co-dominant or incomplete dominant is a very good description for that gene, using the textbook scientific definitions. But everyone in the BP community knows what we mean by codom, so it works.
Re: Co-dominance and incomplete dominance
Little Indian girl you must be at the computer all the time except to sleep.:rolleyes:
You avg. nearly 10 posts a day for the past two years. At least you seem to know what you're talking about.
But where do you find the time?
