Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
I am fimilar with the case. All of her DNA is part mommy part daddy. It's not just the dad or just the mom. It is mixed. She just has different mixes of DNA in different areas. No different than me and my brother having different mixes of our mommy and daddy. Except those mixes are in one body. Chimeras are combined would be siblings, DNA works the same, just might be different in one area of the body vs another.

Yes one animals traits can dominant over another. I notice it seems any ball hybrid has a ball head. However the pattern and body makes it obvious to what it was mixed with. There have been quite a few blood balls aka superball. None I've seen could be mistaken for just a ball.

So even in polypoid situation, which btw is a huge leap imo, the resulting chimera would still have 2 separate DNA that are both the mix of mommy and daddy.
I am aware the genetics are mixed code from each parent in a chimera, but phenotypic expression is not necessarily. Phenotype is what we are talking about in this situation, no? I explained my train of thought with different looking siblings being combined into a chimera, so I am not sure why you are still bringing up mixed genetic code. Am I missing something?

It could be that no one is advertising the more plain hatchlings. Here is a mix that is exactly opposite of what you have described head of a blood, pattern of a ball. http://s218.photobucket.com/user/abi...rball.jpg.html

Diploid means two chromosomes, one from each parent containing genetic code or DNA. Each chromosome is composed of two strands of DNA so that means four DNA to a set. Polyploid is having more than a single set from each parent, usually double so 4 chromosomes or 8 strands of DNA. Out of the 4 one matching pair is allowed to pair during meiosis creating essentially cloned DNA, but each chromosome pair is not from the same parent. It may be unlikely that this is possible because it is thought that homoploid hybrids are more common in animals, but not many studies have been done on hybrid genetics in animals.