What are Pieds? (Jinx)

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The only person not looking at genetics and truly understanding it is you

Actually I understand genetics quite a bit more than most people here.

All of these statements prove that you do not really understand genetics. And relying on Wiki to give you answers when you already do not understand you are talking about is just adding to your misunderstanding

I do fortunately understand quite a bit about genetics. I also do not rely on wiki for my knowledge.

No. Most of the morphs we work with are incomplete-dominant

You say they are and it is commonly accepted so, but this does not make it so. Again I refer you to look into other animals such as mice, fish or even birds. Maybe what we are really dealing with is transheterozygotes

Mayhaps you ought to take your own advice and not proclaim incorrect information as if it were fact?? You do not know what you are talking about so kindly quit telling all of us that we are the problem

My proclaiming came into this because it IS a discussion on such things. And for the simple reason that it IS fact that Albinos, Clowns, Hypos and even Pieds are recessive.

That does not make any of these recessive.

What makes them recessive is that their het phenotype is the normal wild type appearance and their hom phenotype is the said morph appearance.

The only thing "changing" is peoples view/understanding.


Simple

Recessive: A gene where the phenotype is only visible when heteroallelic Actually it is only visible when it is Homozygous.
---Example: Albino at tyr locus. Only when two copies of the Albino gene are present is there a phenotype

And I will use the exact same locus to explain/define Dominant

Dominant: A gene where the phenotype is the same when it is heteroallelic and homoallelic
---Example: WT at the tyr locus. A snake that is genetically heterozygous for Albino (WT/Alb) looks no different than a snake that is genetically homozygous WT (WT/WT)
This is a poor way to try and describe a dominant phenotype as Albino is a proven recessive trait.

Incomplete-Dominant: A gene that expresses a phenotype in the heteroallelic form that is different than the homoallelic form
---Example: BluEL allele group. When one copy of the mutant gene is present you have a distinct phenotype and when two copies of the mutant gene are present you have a second, wholly different phenotype.

I feel that this also is a bad example to use, as I feel that the whole BEL complex is being over simplified.