This entire thing is difficult to think through when we have known everything we thought we have "known" for as long as we thought we knew it. That was a mouthful. Different and sometimes more complicated scenarios can be a little like trying to drive down two forks of the road at the same time. Frustrating.

Technically, "True" Albinos are either T-Positive or T-Negative. No one has done the test to find of the Kahl or Sharp strains are or are not T-Positive. So we do not know for sure. It is assumed that any genetic mutation that interrupts the production of melanin does so at the hands of tyrosinase. Tyrosinase interrupts the normal production of melanin resulting in a reduction in or the limitation of the production of normal levels of melanin or black. There is more than one way to skin a cat and more than one genetic mutation that will limit the production of melanin. The VPI T-Positive genetic trait is one way to accomplish this end. The Sharon Moore Caramel genetic trait is another. The Prodigy Boas are yet another. Each of these is inherited in a simple recessive manor. We know for a fact that the first are simple recessive and will prove out the Prodigy bloodline soon. The only litter produced so far points to the likelihood that they in fact have inherited this characteristic in the simple Mendelian recessive manor as well. Each of these mutations has it's own set of degrees to which the production of melanin is interrupted. So far as we know, each one is a separate bloodline. The Paradigm is produced differently.

The Paradigm Boas are the unique combination of two genetic mutations as everyone now knows. Paradigm Boas genetically accomplish a unique alteration in the production of melanin. However, the result, while slightly different in it's expression, is the same. The production of melanin is interrupted by tyrosinase. This still makes them T-Positive animals just the same. Certainly not achieved or expressed the same, but still T-Positive. I think it might make more sense if the term "T-Positive" is thought of more as the process rather than a name. Nobody producing Paradigm Boas is going to fail to tell people what they are. The "Paradigm" name will always be attached to anything produced from that bloodline the same as the "VPI" name will always accompany those bloodline animals, and eventually the "Prodigy" animals will do the same thing. We don't call a super albino motley a Snow Boa because it isn't one. But, the Paradigm Boa is a T-Positive Albino. Not the same as any of the others but T-Positive nonetheless as detailed.

It's all great fun. Discussion is a wonderful thing that we all learn from it. I love to contemplate, evaluate, cogitate and eat at Las Margaritas! They make the most wicked Chimichangas on the planet! It's getting late for me and I digress. Please excuse and poor grammar or misspellings. My brain is glue fume damaged...
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