I guess I didn't make my statement correctly. When I meant isolate I didn't mean prove it. I mean to isolate it by itself. Just the highlighter gene so that it could be bred into anything. That's why it's so confusing to me. It's a double morph snake. One gene acts like a normal co-Dom lesser into Lucy, but then the other is kind or unproven and it's not really co-Dom or recessive. It's co-Dom in the fact that it comes from a lesser, but at the same time it's recessive because you can't tell which snakes exactly will produce the platinum gene. Too me it sounds best described as het for a co-Dom gene. If that makes any sense. But then it makes me wonder which is the co-Dom the BEL or the "platinum". Both are isolated from each other, but come from all the same style snakes. I find that really interesting and impossible to overthink. Which makes both the BEL and the "platinum" gene similar to a paradox because you can't explain why the gene shows up that way. The only thing that makes these genes different from a paradox is you can predict the gene "as long as you know the parents." I think this gene is amazingly interesting, but very hard to truly understand. I know I should just take it for what it is, but I'm intrigued. When I meant isolate the gene I meant make the highlighter gene completely separate so that you could breed it into other stuff. Like a platinum pastel. Not a lesser pastel. A Platinum pastel. Or platinum spider. Anyone understanding me or am I an idiot.

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• Blue Eyed Lucys Confuse Me - Seeves1982, Thu Mar 17 13:06:55 2011
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