everyone calls them allelicOriginally Posted by Serpent_Nirvana
... How in the heck did I miss that thread?!
Also, "wobble" could be a separate gene from "spider" ... But if it is, it's so very tightly linked that there is no way, through simple breeding, to separate them. In goats, the gene for hornlessness (a good trait) is very tightly linked to a gene for hermaphroditism (a bad trait), so even though scientists know they are two separate genes, there's no practical way to separate them ..! (So, it's really pretty much just academic/semantics...)
Also, in response to the last few replies to this thread ... What the heck should we call those "heterozygous for two mutant gene" animals like mojave/lessers, Vanilla Creams, etc.? How about "hetero Super?" Since Super is a made up (unique to the snake world) term anyway, we could just make up a totally new term for these guys -- doesn't have to make a whole ton of sense ....
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