RE: [Killietalk] F0 designation

["Brian R. Watters" <bwatters at sasktel_net>]

Gary Hoover wrote:

>
> Not that it will be the determining info on this subject, but I
> will tell what they are teaching in high school biology to all
> that take it.
> My biology teacher (with 41 years experience at my school) taught
> us that f0 was the label for a wild animal (be it a fish, a bird,
> a reptile, etc).  We were also told that the offspring were to be
> labeled as f1, the offspring of these to be labeled f2, and so on.
>

Yes, that is the notation that I suggested as being the correct one in my
original response on this subject. As references I used the Dictionary of
Ichthyology by Coad and McAllister (an online dictionary) and the latest
edition of the Penguin Dictionary of Biology. I am not sure if it makes any
difference but both these references use an upper case "F".
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