Here is the best part not all Paradox's are Homozygous for the gene. A paradox can actulity be a het. So even though that animal looks like an albino with black on it in may be a het that had a different issue. Some paradox's are hets and show the partial visual skin mutation. This happens when the incomplete dominate gene we call normal fails to supress the recessive gene of ablinoism. So think of it like a het with a preview.
A het with a preview lol. Thats a great explanation.
So there have been breeding results to show some paradox albinos only het albino?
Have there been results yet to show any paradox albinos not even het albino, just genetic normals?
One theory is that some paradox animals could be chimeras. This is when cells from two siblings merge to make one animal. If both siblings where normals or the same mutation you wouldn't notice the chimera. But in a clutch that can produce dissimilar siblings there is a chance of the chimera really standing out with part of the skin from the normal and part of the skin from the mutant sibling. If this is going on then there is no telling which sibling contributed the reproductive organs and it should be possible in some cases for a paradox to breed as a normal, not even het if it was produced from a het X het breeding.
I dont like the albinos at all, but the paradox albinos kick ass!
So if I want an albino for some combo projekts I will get a paradox. But I guess that they are a bit pricy
Here is the best part not all Paradox's are Homozygous for the gene. A paradox can actulity be a het. So even though that animal looks like an albino with black on it in may be a het that had a different issue. Some paradox's are hets and show the partial visual skin mutation. This happens when the incomplete dominate gene we call normal fails to supress the recessive gene of ablinoism. So think of it like a het with a preview.
I don't think that's correct.
As I understand it the paradox trait is not heritable, in other words it is not passed down. If what you were saying is true...i.e. a the normal gene was acting "incompletely dominant to
albino allele", then when you crossed albinos with paradox albinos, you would expect 50% of the offspring to be regular albinos and the other 50% of the offspring to be paradox albinos. Draw the Punnett Square and see what I mean.
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