If it's ok to...

[Oxylepy]

Someone said that reptile genetics are different from mammalian genetics. I believe this is false. Genetic material is genetic material. It is all made of the same stuff and vulnerable to the same stuff that causes mutation. Mutations and genetic variety are how we got here from sponges and amoebas to ball pythons and humans, so even those creatures can suffer from such effects.

The material is the same, it's not like they're running on a different system. However they have a lot less genes and as such arent as complex as humans/mammals. Thus line breeding will have a lower likelihood of making a deadly/crippling/etc trait present itself.

I don't think so. Read this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16000457

It's kind of hard to read, but my understanding is there is a big difference between mammals and reptiles genetically.

It would explain why they don't catch diseases as easily as we do, and there are far less things that can make a reptile sick. Hence, they don't need nasty immunity shots.

It's talking about bacteria and how they developed differently between mammals and reptiles. That doesnt suggest that they have vastly different genetic design/composition. It simply means that reptile and mammal bacteria evolved down two different paths.

What we do have to support difference between them is that we line breed and it doesnt have much of a detrimental effect, pointing, potentially, to a narrower gene pool that doesnt have many genetic related diseases in it.