Genetics

[OhhWatALoser]

Since we've got the topic of genetics going, can we please talk about how co-dominance is misused by herpers?

Direct from wikipedia, until I get the MCAT and undergrad bio books out to quote to make a thread about this:



The typical example for co-dominance is blood type in humans. There are three alleles for blood type: A,B, and I.

I is recessive, and causes O blood type (don't ask me why they don't just call the allele "O", cuz I don't know). A and B are dominant to I, but co-dominant to each other.

AI = A blood type
BI = B blood type
AA = A blood type
BB = B blood type
II = O blood type

However:
AB = AB blood type. This is a correct example of co-dominance.

The pastel trait, often given as an example of "co-dominance", is in fact an example of INCOMPLETE DOMINANCE.

Thank you.

Think of it like this, what you describe is medel's classification system, we do not use his system in the snake world most of the time. We have a classification which works just fine for us. Just because it's not published in a book doesn't make it incorrect, since it does in fact work quite well.