Balancing out.

[AnEmpiricalAgnostic]

Your dictionary definition implies that phenotype = trait. My understanding was that it was all possible traits allowed by genes, not a specific trait.

It’s my understanding that phenotype is referring to all traits but it is not limited to genes alone. Some traits can be expressed due to environmental conditions. These traits are also included in the phenotype.

Thank-you, and thank-you also to Jet and Loud. I now see that at minimum, I have a lot of work to do.

Thank you. It’s nice to get some fresh material in here once in awhile. I enjoy the mental exercise.

 

[Jet Black]

Jet,

I'll have to look at those examples.

sure, but I think one or two aren't quite what you were after.

We never saw any "shade tails." So no comparative data. My son wants to know if bushy-tail leather makes good gloves.

Don't worry about shooting too many. A more likely problem is they'll get out of control, destroy everything and either die out from disease or starvation. Besides, it's hard to compete with the "wastefulness" of nature. Any idea what percentage starve to death in a good winter?

that's true, nature is incredibly wasteful - I only meant my comment light heartedly. Take the quoll for example, it gives birth to some 30 young, but she has only 6 nipples, meaning that 24 of them are guaranteed to die. I agree that control is important.