Re: What are Pieds? (Jinx)
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Originally Posted by
snakesRkewl
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If het clown is recessive why does it alter everything it touches in pattern and in color?
Exactly. Wholly agree. I've been saying this for a while as well.
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Re: What are Pieds? (Jinx)
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Originally Posted by
TessadasExotics
You can not change genetics. Pieds are recessive. Albinos are recessive. Laves are. Carmels are. Axanthics are.
The genetic terms used in the ball python world are already wrong. So why try to make things worse?
By definition.
In genetics, a:recessive gene or allele is one in which the effect is not tangible, or is masked by the effects of the dominant gene. The recessivetrait may be expressed when the recessive genes are in homozygous condition or when the dominant gene is not present. That happens when anorganism inherits a pair of recessive genes from its parents.
No, we might not can change genetics, but we certainly can do a little more research to UNDERSTAND the genetics better. Your view in this post makes you sound very narrow minded since you aren't open to the possibility that saying pied/clown/whathaveyou COULD be something other than recessive. In order for science to progress, we have to question the paradigms that exist. Currently, the paradigm is exactly what you're staying. However, most of us are arguing that pieds/cowns/etc are not in fact recessive but some kind of incomplete dominant gene. This is our way of questioning the paradigm in the hopes to further science. Think about it, if we can use genetics and genome mapping to prove that these genes are not actually recessive, can you imagine all the other questions we can answer in this hobby? I think it's a great topic for Genetic students in colleges to study. I was almost a biology major and if I had continued that path, I probably would have done a thesis on this kind of thing.
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Originally Posted by
TessadasExotics
So explaine then what is a recessive trait? What is a "codominant", and what is a dominant?
I beg to differ. I am more of a mind that most of what we breed are simple recessive.
I think you know what those traits are...I just don't think you're matching the ball python morphs to the correct type of trait. Like I said above, this theory needs a lot of testing and if it's correct, it would open a world of new questions for this hobby!
It kinda makes me giddy inside just thinking about it!