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- From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:40:21 -0500
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:41:25 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't know if this is a useful contribution to the subject but, I seem to
>recall reading in a text ages ago that identical genotypes can manifest as
>different phenotypes, given varying environmental conditions.
>
>This would seem to imply that their is some flexibility in how the gene
>expresses itself physically.
>
(What is written below is my non-expert understanding
only...)
This certainly appears to be true. For instance, identical
twins (humans) have the same genotype and somewhat different
phenotypes: most people who know identical twins can easily
tell them apart. I can tell the Keno twins (who have a
public TV program about antiques) apart and I don't even
know them: I've just seen them on TV a few times.
No two anythings can have *precisely* the same environment
anyway, because they don't occupy the same physical space.
Maybe one garlic clove is just sprouting and a mole bumps
into it and bruises it. The mole misses the neighboring
clove...
Maybe one garlic clove is hit by a cosmic ray and that
changes it. (The only place safe from cosmic rays is way
underground in salt mines and similar places.)
Pat
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[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming
, (continued)
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[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming, Marty Kraft, 03/20/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Allan Balliett, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Karen Sutherland, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Onion Sets,
Marie Kamphefner, 03/20/2005
- RE: [Market-farming] Onion Sets, Marie Kamphefner, 03/21/2005
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[Market-farming] RE: Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] RE: Garlic Renaming, road's end farm, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Onion Sets,
Marie Kamphefner, 03/20/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Joe Kames, 03/20/2005
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming, Pat Meadows, 03/21/2005
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Karen Sutherland, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
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[Market-farming] Garlic Renaming,
Alliums, 03/20/2005
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