Socratic Monologue
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"Hog Island Blood" boa -- what's up with using a locale to stand in for a genetic trait?
Is a Blood x Hog Island still a Hog Island, or is it het for Hog Island? Or is it 50% Hog Island? What if I bred this boa back to a sibling -- would the offspring be 25% normal, 50% Hog Island and 25% Super Hog Island?
If it it 50% Hog Island, what percentage of Hog Island is required to call it 'Hog Island"? Is it like homeopathy, where the active ingredient can be diluted so many times that statistically it no longer exists in the sample? What if one Hog Island boa made it into mainland wild populations -- would every single wild mainland boa be 'Hog Island' after so many generations? (If so, then we're all Neanderthals, which explains so many things.) What if there were just a Hog Island boa in the room -- would some Hog Island waft over to the rest of the boas? Is Hog Island contagious, maybe carried by mites?
If any amount of Hog Island ancestry makes it a Hog Island, then this could be great -- my generic Baja Rosy Boa is now a San Matias San Felipe El Rosario Catavina Bay of LA Mag Plains Cabo Rosy Boa, and if we follow morphed out ball python pricing it would be worth like $25,000. My God I'm rich, RICH I tell you!!
Is a Blood x Hog Island still a Hog Island, or is it het for Hog Island? Or is it 50% Hog Island? What if I bred this boa back to a sibling -- would the offspring be 25% normal, 50% Hog Island and 25% Super Hog Island?
If it it 50% Hog Island, what percentage of Hog Island is required to call it 'Hog Island"? Is it like homeopathy, where the active ingredient can be diluted so many times that statistically it no longer exists in the sample? What if one Hog Island boa made it into mainland wild populations -- would every single wild mainland boa be 'Hog Island' after so many generations? (If so, then we're all Neanderthals, which explains so many things.) What if there were just a Hog Island boa in the room -- would some Hog Island waft over to the rest of the boas? Is Hog Island contagious, maybe carried by mites?
If any amount of Hog Island ancestry makes it a Hog Island, then this could be great -- my generic Baja Rosy Boa is now a San Matias San Felipe El Rosario Catavina Bay of LA Mag Plains Cabo Rosy Boa, and if we follow morphed out ball python pricing it would be worth like $25,000. My God I'm rich, RICH I tell you!!