Talk:Wild type

Banana example

I removed the illustration of the "Wild Type Banana". By the concept I know about wild type, and is the same used in this article, this wild type banana is not in the same sense of the article. And if it's actually true in this sense, it wasn't helping to understand the concept of the most found phenotype variation, but making it more confusing. Allan Daemon (talk) 15:17, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

I disagree. I feel the banana pic is a good example to illustrate the difference between a wild type and the 'domesticated' kind of banana we grow nowadays. Wild-type is not always about two different alleles of just one gene. SPLETTE :] ^{How's my driving?} 23:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Merge with Allele page?

I believe there is already a perfectly adequate discussion of the wild-type concept on the allele page and the two should be merged. The discussion of the medical and commercial applications of the wild type concept seems misleading and confusing to me. The phrase "wild type mutations," which appears throughout these two sections is oxymoronic because the "mutated" form of a gene is defined in reference to the wild type allele in the common parlance of genetics. This is what makes it a mutant. Therefore, it is very unclear what is connoted by the phrase "wild type mutant."

In the agriculture section, the article seems to confuse selective breeding (possibly through the use of genetic markers) and genetic modification. Since the topics discussed in these sections bear a tenuous relationship to the wild type concept and since they are already covered in their own sections (see selective breeding) I propose that they don't need to be covered here.

Ethan Bass (talk) 14:22, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Sentence needs work

I have read and re-read the following sentence several times: " Individual genome sequencing is available to individuals hoping to find out their genetic code which where mutations occurred and can indicate their likelihood to develop certain diseases or disorders." I cannot figure out what it means. YSSYguy (talk) 03:14, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Wowsers, this is a terrible article, marred by misused terms, confusion between conventional breeding and gene technology, and random points with little relation to the concept of wildtype. I've removed the sentence you quoted, but I think the intended meaning was something like "Personal genomics allows individuals to have their own genetic sequence tested, revealing which mutations they have and allowing estimation of their susceptibility to certain diseases or disorders." This article really needs to be stubbed. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 09:46, 14 August 2015 (UTC)